Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A container for hot water used in the ordeal by water.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A cauldron into which balling water was poured, in which a criminal plunged his arm up to the elbow, and there held it for some time, as an or deni. Du Cange.