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Cutty stool   /kˈəti stul/   Listen
Cutty stool

noun
1.
A low stool; formerly in Scotland, a seat in a church where an offender was publicly rebuked.





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"Cutty stool" Quotes from Famous Books



... received, from her agonised father, a rebuke similar to that administered to other members of his congregation for a like offence. The spirit of the age became unfavourable to the practice. The rebuke on the cutty stool, like the penance in a white sheet in England, went out of use, and the circumstance is now a matter of "reminiscence." I have received some communications on the subject, which bear upon this point; and I subjoin the following remarks from a kind correspondent, a clergyman, ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay


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