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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 407 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCOLD , one who scolds, i.e. chides, finds See also:

fault with or rebukes with violence or persistence or vituperation. It is usually a See also:term applied to See also:women, and a " See also:common scold " (in See also:Low See also:Lat. communis rixatrix) was indictable in See also:England at common See also:law as a public See also:nuisance, See also:special See also:instruments of See also:punishment being devised in the " See also:branks " or " scold's bridle," and the " cucking See also:stool." Thp word is apparently an See also:adaptation of the Norse skald, skald or See also:scald, a poet, and according to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary the intermediate meaning through which the sense develops is " libeller " or " lampooner." See also:Skeat derives from Du. schold, schellen, and takes the word as originally meaning a loud talker, cf. Icel. skjalla, to clash, Ger. schallen. The Norse word is also to be connected in this See also:case, the " skald being one who talks loudly.

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