Ducking-Stool is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 1078 anagrams from letters in ducking-stool (-cdgiklnoostu).
First recorded in 1590-1600
Stop her mouth, some of you; or, if she will scream, take her to the ducking stool.
The ducking stool on Herring Creek had just been equipped, the year before, with new irons and so was in good repair.
Such characters were also taken to the ducking stool and thoroughly doused in the water.
In 1741, old Rugby paid 2s 4d for a chair for the ducking stool.
The early Virginians did not hesitate to subject gossiping women to the harsh punishment of the ducking stool.
The suggestive and usual place of storing the ducking stool, when not in use, was the church-yard.
This ducking stool was intended for the special benefit of vixens and scolding wives.
The ducking stool was used for punishing common scolds, refractory women and dishonest tradesmen, especially brewers and bakers.
Up flew the beam of the ducking stool, reliev'd of their weight, and down with a splash went the pickpocket at the far end.
The ducking stool seems to have been placed on the lowest and most contempt-bearing stage among English instruments of punishment.
15
19