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2. Common scold - Wikipedia

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   This woodcut shows the wheels on a ducking stool mount which allowed the occupant to be wheeled through the streets before being ducked. A plaque on the Fye Bridge in Norwich, England, claims to mark the site of a "cucking" stool, and that from 1562 to 1597 strumpets (flirtatious or promiscuous young women) and common scolds suffered dunking there.

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   To balance from side to side, or to self-balance laterally, the planet wheels on the drive wheel will be powered appropriately. [ 4 ] Measuring 510 x 315 x 620 mm and weighing 25 kg, the UNI-CUB is powered by a lithium-ion battery and has a 6 km/h top speed and 6 km range.

4. Water torture - Wikipedia

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   Some were on wheels like a tumbrel that could be dragged around the parish. Some were put on poles so that they could be plunged into water, hence "ducking" stool. Stocks or pillories were similarly used for the punishment of men or women by humiliation. The term "cucking-stool" is older, with written records dating back to the 13th and 14th ...

5. Tumbrel - Wikipedia

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   In this use, the carts were sometimes covered. The two wheels allowed the cart to be tilted to discharge its load more easily. [3] [2] Many tumbrels also had hinged tailboards for the same reason. The word is also used as a name for the cucking stool and for a type of balancing scale used in medieval times to check the weight of coins. [4]

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7. Ducking stool - Wikipedia

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   Ducking stools or cucking stools were chairs formerly used for punishment of disorderly women, scolds, and dishonest tradesmen in medieval Europe [1] and elsewhere at later times. [2] The ducking-stool was a form of wymen pine , or "women's punishment", as referred to in Langland's Piers Plowman (1378).