cutty-stool

"He will be marrying me, mother," said she; "I ken he will be coming to you soon, and -- and there will be no cutty-stool either," said she, "for he is a nice lad and dacent, if he will be a little game," maybe thinking of the stackyard.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

I hope Brown does not put them in his journal: if he does, I must sit on the cutty-stool all next winter.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

"Are there nae cutty-stool businesses -- are there nae marriages going on just now, Isaac?" for I was keen to change the subject.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

"Are there nae cutty-stool businesses -- are there nae marriages going on just now, Isaac?" for I was keen to change the subject.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

Have I not sate on the cutty-stool, mon, [again assuming the northern dialect,] and thought it grace of worthy Mrs John Gillespie, that I was permitted to do penance in my own privy chamber, instead of the face of the congregation? and wilt thou tell me, after all, that I cannot speak

Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

"Some thinks it's the Kirk-session -- that is -- it's the -- it's the cutty-stool, if your Leddyship pleases," said Jeanie, looking down and courtesying.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

“Some thinks it’s the Kirk-session — that is — it’s the — it’s the cutty-stool, if your

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

I not sate on the cutty-stool, mon, [again assuming the northern dialect,] and thought it grace of worthy Mrs John Gillespie, that I was permitted to do penance in my own privy chamber, instead of the face of the congregation? and wilt thou tell me, after all, that I cannot speak Scotch enough to baffle an Oxon Knight and his family?”

Woodstock 1855