Meaning of cuttystool | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A low stool.
   Scotland, obsolete
2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
   historical

Examples

“She's now nae mair Kate but Miss Dalrymple. Her auld cutty stool that she used at her wheel, Was flung by for her gilded sofa sae gaudy, Now she's arrayed in her silk and brocade, Ind brags о' her muff's and ruff's wi' ony lady.”

“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.”

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