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21castigatory — 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 …
22cucking-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… …
23tumbrel — /tambral/ A castigatory, trebucket, or dunking stool, anciently used as a punishment for common scolds …
24cocking-stool — A contrivance, also called the trebucket or castigatory, formerly provided in England for the correction of common scolds. The word was said to have come from the Saxon language in which it signified a scolding stool. It was finally corrupted… …
25trebuchet — [trē′buk΄ittreb′yo͞o shet΄] n. [ME < OFr < trebucher, to stumble < tre (< L trans , TRANS ) + buc, trunk, body < Frank * buk, trunk, akin to Ger bauch, belly < PGmc * bhug < IE * bhū , var. of base * bheu , to grow, swell… …
26arbalist — noun an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles • Syn: ↑catapult, ↑arbalest, ↑ballista, ↑bricole, ↑mangonel, ↑onager, ↑trebuchet, ↑trebucket …
27bricole — noun an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles • Syn: ↑catapult, ↑arbalest, ↑arbalist, ↑ballista, ↑mangonel, ↑onager, ↑trebuchet, ↑trebucket …
28trebuchet — n. (also trebucket) hist. 1 a military machine used in siege warfare for throwing stones etc. 2 a tilting balance for accurately weighing light articles. Etymology: ME f. OF f. trebucher overthrow, ult. f. Frank …
