cuttystool noun2 •(historical) A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. •(Scotland, no longer used) A low stool.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. — 1902 formscuttystools