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(obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket.

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castigatory

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castigatory

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(obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket.

Japanese Meaning

（古語）説教に値する者を罰するために用いられた道具、具体的にはダッキングスツール（浴びせ椅子）やトレビケットを指す。

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The village elders displayed the ancient castigatory, explaining how its ironwork once punished the most incorrigible scolds.

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村の長老たちは古い口輪（ブランクス）を展示し、その鉄細工がかつて最も手に負えない口やかましい者たちを懲らしめていたことを説明した。

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(obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant scolds; the ducking stool or trebucket.

For which offence she may be indicted; and , if convicted , shall be sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket , castigatory, or ducking stool

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