cutty-stoolとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cuttystool (複数形 cuttystools)

1. 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.

2. (historical) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.

   Synonym: stool of repentance