Usually means: Punitive chair for public humiliation.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. ducking stool: Merriam-Webster
  2. ducking stool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ducking stool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ducking stool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ducking stool: Vocabulary.com
  6. ducking-stool, ducking stool: Wordnik
  7. ducking stool: Wiktionary
  8. ducking stool: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ducking stool: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ducking stool: Dictionary.com
  11. Ducking stool: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ducking stool: Rhymezone
  13. ducking-stool: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. ducking stool: FreeDictionary.org
  15. ducking stool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. ducking stool: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. ducking stool: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Ducking-stool: Legal dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ducking stool)

▸ noun:  (historical) A chair used to punish women, especially scolds, by ducking them in water.

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