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English
Etymology
cutty + stool
Noun
cuttystool (plural cuttystools)
- A low stool.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:And they who passed would see Alison trupling in her garden, speaking to herself like the ill wife she was, or sitting on a cutty-stool by the doorside, with her eyes on other than mortal sights.
- (historical) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
- Synonym: stool of repentance