Usually means: Chair used for public humiliation.
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  1. cucking stool: Merriam-Webster
  2. cucking stool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cucking stool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cucking stool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cucking stool: Vocabulary.com
  6. cucking stool: Wordnik
  7. cucking stool: Wiktionary
  8. cucking stool: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cucking stool, cucking stool: Dictionary.com
  10. cucking stool: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Cucking-stool, Cucking stool: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cucking stool: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cucking stool: Rhymezone
  14. Cucking stool: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cucking stool: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cucking stool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. cucking stool: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Cucking-stool: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cucking stool: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cucking stool: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cucking stool)

noun:  (historical) A kind of chair to which a person (such as a scold or dishonest tradesman) was fastened in order to be punished and socially humiliated, usually by being pelted and hooted at by a mob in front of their own house, but sometimes being taken to water and ducked.

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