pining stoolとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

pining stool (複数形 pining stools)

1. (now まれに, historical) A cucking stool.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes.

   • 2004, Gordon Campbell, Renaissance Art and Architecture, p. 55:

     The cucking stool or pining stool (known from the eighteenth century as the ducking stool) was used to duck scolds and disorderly women into ponds and rivers […].