castigatory
/K AE1 S T AH0 G AH0 T AO0 R IY0/adjective
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Serving or tending to castigate.
noun
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(obsolete) An instrument formerly used to punish and correct women whose behavior was considered unseemly; the ducking stool or trebucket.
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