Fye Bridge is arguably the oldest river crossing in Norwich and is the gate to the North of the City known as “ Norwich Over the Water ” this bridge was also the site of a cucking stool for ducking lawbreakers and undesirables.

The prescribed penalty for this offence involved dunking the convicted offender in water in an instrument called the " cucking stool ".

The Domesday Book notes the use of a cucking stool at Chester, a seat also known as cathedra stercoris, a " dung chair ", whose punishment apparently involved exposing the sitter's buttocks to onlookers.

A plaque on the Fye Bridge in Norwich, England claims to mark the site of a " cucking " stool, and that from 1562 – 1597 " strumpets " and common scolds suffered the punishment of dunking there.

Ducking or cucking stool, a historical punishment for the common scold, 1896

There does seem to have been a difference in usage between a ducking stool and a cucking stool.

Although both were primarily forms of public exposure and humiliation, the cucking stool seems to have involved no water, with the victim raised up in the air on show.

: And thus unto the cucking stool

The suspicion of being a “ stool pigeon ”, a cascittuni ( an informant ), constituted the blackest mark against manhood, according to Cutrera.

Morales stated that McCullough gave him one of the top three fights of his career and almost quit on his stool after the 9th round ( according to RING magazine ).

Tom then plays a chord where the mouse is standing repeatedly, receiving increasingly rude gestures in return, and eventually catches the mouse and stows him into the piano stool.

These lesions may bleed intermittently, which is rarely significant enough to be noticed ( in the form of bloody vomiting or black stool ), but eventually leads to depletion of iron in the body, resulting in iron-deficiency anemia.

Al, still humming, leans back on his stool to remain in view and eventually falls off.

Immediately after the surgery is complete, the patient tends to pass liquid stool with frequent urgency, and he or she may have 8 to 15 bowel movements per day, but this eventually decreases with time.

By retiring on his stool Peter became one of the only heavyweight champions in history to quit against his corner's advice while defending the championship.

In fact, this stool became such a symbol of privilege that when Louis XIV's mother, the Regent Anne of Austria granted the tabouret to two non-duchesses, such a storm of protest was raised that she had to revoke them.

A second theory suggests the name came from a low stool known as a ' cricket ' in England, which from the side looked like the long, low wicket used in the early days of the game ( originally from the Flemish ' krickstoel ', a low stool on which parishioners knelt in church ).

Many shrubs respond well to renewal pruning, in which hard cutting back to a ' stool ' results in long new stems known as " canes ".

When a man, for example, has obtained an idea of chairs in general by comparison with which he can say " This is a chair, that is a stool ", he has what is known as an " abstract idea " distinct from the reproduction in his mind of any particular chair ( see abstraction ).

In adults, Loss of liquid stool in adults is known by the terms " fecal leakage " ( FL ), " fecal soiling ", " fecal seepage " or " liquid stool incontinence ".

They are susceptible to various heritable diseases, although are most known for two protein wasting conditions: protein-losing nephropathy ( PLN ), where the dogs lose protein via the kidneys ; and protein-losing enteropathy ( PLE ), where the dogs fail to fully absorb protein in their digestive tracts, causing it to pass in their stool.

The ruler — in essence the religious and political leader — and the occupant of the Golden stool was to be known as the Asantehene and to be subsequently selected from the lineage of Osei Tutu and Obiri Yeboa.

Two additional genera have been proposed: Recovirus for a novel calicivirus detected in stool specimens from rhesus monkeys and Valovirus-for a novel group of swine caliciviruses known as the St-Valérien-like viruses.

The stool that the player usually sits on is traditionally known as " Orindi ".

According to the Churchwarden's Accounts for Great St. Mary's Church of Cambridge ( 1504 – 1635 ), a church stool was sometimes known in the south-east by the Dutch name of " kreckett ", this being the same word used for the game by John Derrick in 1597.

One of the last ordeals by ducking stool took place in Leominster in 1809, with Jenny Pipes as the final incumbent.

The ducking stool is on public display in Leominster Priory ; a mechanised depiction of it is featured on the town clock.

Barnaby has them arrested on a burglary charge, and the two are sentenced to be dunked in the ducking stool and then banished to Bogeyland.

This seat served to punish not only scolds, but also brewers and bakers who sold bad ale or bread, whereas the ducking stool dunked its victim into the water.

The ducking stool, rather than being fixed in position by the river or pond, could be mounted on wheels to allow the convicted woman to be paraded through the streets before punishment was carried out.

In the United States, scolds or those convicted of similar offences could be sentenced to stand with their tongue in a cleft stick, a more primitive but easier to construct version of the scold's bridle, but the ducking stool also made the trip across the Atlantic.

This woodcut shows the wheels on the ducking stool which allowed the occupant to be wheeled through the streets before being ducked.

The last recorded uses of the stool for ducking involve a Mrs. Ganble at Plymouth ( 1808 ) and Jenny Pipes, a notorious scold from Leominster ( 1809 ).

A wench gets her comeuppance in the ducking stool.

There are replica stocks in the Square, and also a ducking stool, a replica of one that was once used to dump gossiping women into the harbour.

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Punishing a common scold in the ducking stool.

Some were put on poles so that they could be plunged into water, hence " ducking " stool.

A complete ducking stool is on public display in Leominster Priory, Herefordshire.

The town clock, commissioned for the Millennium, features a moving ducking stool depiction.

However, there are currently plans to construct a replica ducking stool at the site.

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" Although a ducking stool had been constructed nearby, the court ruled that the traditional common law punishment of ducking for a scold was obsolete, and she was instead fined $ 10.