What is an instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. Blacktone called?
castigatory — An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket. Blacktone. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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