Cuttystool
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cuttystool is a noun meaning (Scotland, obsolete) A low stool.
Meaning
(Scotland, obsolete) A low stool.
More Meanings
- (historical) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- cuttystools
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tumpty, pixy-stool, cuttle, cutty, pixie-stool, cuttoe.
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