"Trebucket" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A tumbrel, castigatory, or cucking-stool. See James v. Comm., 12 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 227
A kind of balance for weighing.
A military engine used in the Middle Ages for throwing
stones, etc. It acted by means of a great weight fastened to the short
arm of a lever, which, being let fall, raised the end of the long arm
with great velocity, hurling stones with much force.
A cucking stool; a tumbrel.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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An engine used to punish women who have been convicted of being common scolds. It Is sometimes called the “trebucket," …
Read the complete definitionA cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
Read the complete definitionA kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in …
Read the complete definitionA kind of cart; a tumbrel.
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Read the complete definitionA castigatory, trebucket, or ducking-stool, anciently used as a punisb-ment for common scolds
Read the complete definitionIn old English law, a tumbrel, castigatory, or ducking stool, anciently used as an instrument of punishment for eommon scolds
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