trebucket
11trebuchet — or trebucket noun Etymology: Middle English trebochet, from Anglo French trebuchet Date: 15th century a medieval military engine for hurling heavy missiles (as rocks) …
12Trebuchet — A trebuchet [PronEng|ˈtrɛbəʃɛt TREB ə shet or IPA|/ˌtrɛbjʊˈʃɛt/ TREB yoo SHET (OED, Random House Unabridged Dictionary)] or trebucket [pronounced IPA|/ˈtriːbʌkɨt/ TREE bucket or IPA|/ˌtrɛbjʊˈkɛt/ TREB yoo KET (Random House Unabridged Dictionary)] …
13Common scold — Punishing a common scold in the dunking stool In the common law of crime in England and Wales, a common scold was a species of public nuisance a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarreling with her… …
14trebuchet — /treb yoo shet , treb yoo shet /, n. a medieval engine of war with a sling for hurling missiles. Also, trebucket /tree buk it, treb yoo ket /. [1300 50; ME < MF, equiv. to trebuch(er) to overturn, fall (tre(s) across, over ( < L trans TRANS ) +… …
15Arms — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Arms >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 arm arm arms Sgm: N 1 weapon weapon deadly weapon Sgm: N 1 armament armament armaments armature Sgm: N 1 panoply panoply stand of arms …
16cucking stool — early 13c., from cuck to void excrement, from O.N. kuka feces (the chair was sometimes in the form of a close stool). Also known as trebucket and castigatory, it was used on disorderly women and fraudulent tradesmen, either in the form of public… …
17castigatory — n. (Law.) Trebuchet or trebucket, tumbrel or tumbril, ducking stool, cucking stool …
18trebuchet — n. Tumbrel, castigatory, ducking stool, cucking stool, trebucket …
19castigatory — An engine used to punish women who had been convicted of being common scolds. It was sometimes called the trebucket, tumbrel, ducking stool, or cucking stool …
20cucking-stool — An engine of correction for common scolds, which in the Saxon language is said to signify the scolding stool, though now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool, because the judgment was that, when the woman was placed therein, she should… …
