punishment. An instrument used, in dipping women in the water, as a punishment, on conviction of being common scolds. It is sometimes confounded with tumbrel. 2. This barbarous punishment was never in use in Pennsylvania.
punishment. An instrument used, in dipping women in the water, as a punishment, on conviction of being common scolds. It is sometimes confounded with tumbrel. 2. This barbarous punishment was never in use in Pennsylvania.