cuttystool

English

Etymology

cutty +‎ stool

Noun

cuttystool (plural cuttystools)

  1. A low stool.
  2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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