or Scolds. A woman indicted for being a common scold, if convicted, shall be placed in a certain engine of correction, called the Jacob's trebucket, cafligator, or cucking-stock; which, in the Saxon language, signifies the scolding-stock; though now it is frequently corrupted into the ducking-stock; because the residue of the judgment is, that, when she is placed therein, she shall be plunged in water for her punishment.