What does pining stool mean?

pining stool

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.68 in modern English

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"To punyschen on pillories · and pynynge stoles / Brewesteres and bakesteres · bocheres and cokes."
"The cucking stool or pining stool (known from the eighteenth century as the ducking stool) was used to duck scolds and disorderly women into ponds and rivers […]."

pining stools (plural)

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