cuttystool
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
cuttystool (plural cuttystools)
- A low stool.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- And they who passed would see Alison trupling in her garden, speaking to herself like the ill wife she was, or sitting on a cutty-stool by the doorside, with her eyes on other than mortal sights.
- (historical) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
- Synonym: stool of repentance
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cuttystool”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)