CUTTY STOOL Definition & Meaning

cutty stool

Scot.

a low stool.
(formerly) a seat in churches where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, received public rebuke.

cutty stool

(formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister

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First recorded in 1765–75

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Somebody may come to kame your hair wi' a cutty stool.

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This was performed by the guilty person standing up before the congregation on a raised platform, called the cutty stool, and receiving a rebuke.

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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."

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