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Definition of Cutty stool
1. Noun. A low stool; formerly in Scotland, a seat in a church where an offender was publicly rebuked.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutty Stool
Literary usage of Cutty stool
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"This was performed by the guilty person standing up before the whole congregation
on a raised platform called the cutty-stool.—DEAN RAMSAY. ..."
2. Reminiscences of fifty years by Mark Boyd (1871)
"Well,' said my father, ' I acknowledge I am hoisted with my own petard, but my
execution shall be the grave of the cutty stool in this parish. ..."
3. The Ancient Capital of Scotland: The Story of Perth from the Invasion of by Samuel Cowan (1904)
"The Ancient Church of St. John—Foundation and Early History—The cutty stool,
Knox's Pulpit, and the Royal Pew—Edward I. celebrates there the Feast of the ..."
4. Footsteps of Our Forefathers: What They Suffered and what They Sought by James Goodeve Miall (1852)
"Ho died in September, 1672, aged seventy-six, artd was buried in St. Michael's,
Cornhill. JENNY GEDDES' cutty stool. ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"cutty stool, the stool of repentance, formerly employed in the Scotch kirk, ...
The penance consisted in occupying the cutty stool, in face of the ..."
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