About nagging wives

Nag = to annoy, worry, harass, hassle, henpeck, provoke, torment, bend someone's ear etc.

Let women learn how her tongue to rule.

Nag is a female noun without any male equivalents in dictionary.

Until the 19th century, English, American and European laws allowed for a husband to complain to the magistrate about his wife's nagging or scolding. If his case was found proved, his wife would be sentenced to the 'Ducking stool' - the offending women will be strapped into a seat and be dunked into the nearest river or lake for a predetermined length of time. (Ref. - British court record of 1592).

The last women to suffer the Ducking stool after being convicted of being 'a common scold' was Jenny Pipes from Leominster, England in 1809.

If the 'Ducking stool' wasn't considered punishment enough, there was even worse in store. Some women ended up being paraded around the town, as a warning to other women, with an iron mask, 'the brunks', clamped into their heads with a metal bar going into their heads with a metal bar going into their mouths to hold the tongue down.