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ducking
(encz) | ducking,lov kachen Zdeněk Brož |
Ducking
(gcide) | Duck \Duck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ducked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ducking.] [OE. duken, douken, to dive; akin to D. duiken,
OHG. t?hhan, MHG. tucken, t["u]cken, t?chen, G. tuchen. Cf.
5th Duck.]
1. To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and
suddenly withdraw.
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Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice,
leaped out of the tub. --Fielding.
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2. To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing
it; as, duck the boy.
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3. To bow; to bob down; to move quickly with a downward
motion. " Will duck his head aside." --Swift.
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Ducking
(gcide) | Ducking \Duck"ing\,
n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.
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Ducking stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were
formerly tied, and plunged into water, as a punishment.
See Cucking stool. The practice of ducking began in the
latter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the
early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the
19th century. --Blackstone. Chambers.
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ducking
(wn) | ducking
n 1: hunting ducks [syn: ducking, duck hunting]
2: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn:
submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing] |
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grinning, ducking & hiding
(msas) | Grinning, Ducking & Hiding
- GD&H |
grinning, ducking & running
(msas) | Grinning, Ducking & Running
- GD&R |
grinning, ducking & weaving
(msas) | Grinning, Ducking & Weaving
- GD&W |
grinning, ducking & hiding
(msasasci) | Grinning, Ducking & Hiding
- GD&H |
grinning, ducking & running
(msasasci) | Grinning, Ducking & Running
- GD&R |
grinning, ducking & weaving
(msasasci) | Grinning, Ducking & Weaving
- GD&W |
ducking
(encz) | ducking,lov kachen Zdeněk Brož |
ducking stool
(encz) | ducking stool, n: |
ducking stool
(gcide) | Cucking stool \Cuck"ing stool`\ (k?k"?ng st??l`). [Cf. AS.
scealfingst[=o]l, a word of similar meaning, allied to
scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from F. coquine a
hussy, slut, jade, f. of coquin, OE. cokin, a rascal; or cf.
Icel. k?ka to dung, k?kr dung, the name being given as to a
disgracing or infamous punishment.]
A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also
dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in
front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob,
but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called
also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and
often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. --Sir. W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]Ducking \Duck"ing\,
n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.
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Ducking stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were
formerly tied, and plunged into water, as a punishment.
See Cucking stool. The practice of ducking began in the
latter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the
early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the
19th century. --Blackstone. Chambers.
[1913 Webster]Castigatory \Cas"ti*ga*to*ry\, n.
An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant
scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
--Blacktone.
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Ducking stool
(gcide) | Cucking stool \Cuck"ing stool`\ (k?k"?ng st??l`). [Cf. AS.
scealfingst[=o]l, a word of similar meaning, allied to
scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from F. coquine a
hussy, slut, jade, f. of coquin, OE. cokin, a rascal; or cf.
Icel. k?ka to dung, k?kr dung, the name being given as to a
disgracing or infamous punishment.]
A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also
dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in
front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob,
but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called
also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and
often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. --Sir. W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]Ducking \Duck"ing\,
n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.
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Ducking stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were
formerly tied, and plunged into water, as a punishment.
See Cucking stool. The practice of ducking began in the
latter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the
early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the
19th century. --Blackstone. Chambers.
[1913 Webster]Castigatory \Cas"ti*ga*to*ry\, n.
An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant
scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
--Blacktone.
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ducking stool
(gcide) | Cucking stool \Cuck"ing stool`\ (k?k"?ng st??l`). [Cf. AS.
scealfingst[=o]l, a word of similar meaning, allied to
scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from F. coquine a
hussy, slut, jade, f. of coquin, OE. cokin, a rascal; or cf.
Icel. k?ka to dung, k?kr dung, the name being given as to a
disgracing or infamous punishment.]
A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also
dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in
front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob,
but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called
also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and
often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. --Sir. W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster]Ducking \Duck"ing\,
n. & a., from Duck, v. t. & i.
[1913 Webster]
Ducking stool, a stool or chair in which common scolds were
formerly tied, and plunged into water, as a punishment.
See Cucking stool. The practice of ducking began in the
latter part of the 15th century, and prevailed until the
early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the
19th century. --Blackstone. Chambers.
[1913 Webster]Castigatory \Cas"ti*ga*to*ry\, n.
An instrument formerly used to punish and correct arrant
scolds; -- called also a ducking stool, or trebucket.
--Blacktone.
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ducking
(wn) | ducking
n 1: hunting ducks [syn: ducking, duck hunting]
2: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn:
submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing] |
ducking stool
(wn) | ducking stool
n 1: an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which
offenders were ducked in water [syn: cucking stool,
ducking stool] |
DUCKING-STOOL
(bouvier) | DUCKING-STOOL, punishment. An instrument used, in dipping women in the
water, as a punishment, on conviction of being common scolds. It is
sometimes confounded with tumbrel. (q.v.)
2. This barbarous punishment was never in use in Pennsylvania. 12 Serg.
& Rawle, 220.
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