STOOL

stool

(noun) a simple seat without a back or arms

toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne

(noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

stool

(noun) (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make

(verb) have a bowel movement; “The dog had made in the flower beds”

stool, tiller

(verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

stool

(verb) react to a decoy, of wildfowl

stool

(verb) lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

stool (countable and uncountable, plural stools)

A seat for one person without a back or armrest.

A footstool.

(now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.

(now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.

(horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

(obsolete) A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.

Synonyms: Thesaurus:chamber pot, Thesaurus:toilet, Thesaurus:bathroom

(chiefly, medicine) Feces, excrement.

Synonym: Thesaurus:feces

(chiefly, medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.

Synonym: Thesaurus:defecation

(archaic) A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.

(nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.

(US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Verb

stool (third-person singular simple present stools, present participle stooling, simple past and past participle stooled)

(chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate.

(horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Synonyms

• See defecate

Etymology 2

Noun

stool (plural stools)

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

Verb

stool (third-person singular simple present stools, present participle stooling, simple past and past participle stooled)

(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

Anagrams

• loots, lotos, sloot, sotol, tools, tosol

Source: Wiktionary

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Stool, n. Etym: [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.)

Definition: A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.

Stool, v. i. (Agric.)

Definition: To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

Stool, n. Etym: [AS. stol a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. stol, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. stoll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. stols, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.]

1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]

4. (Naut.)

Definition: A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. Totten.

5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. J. P. Peters.

6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.] Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat. Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [Scot.] -- Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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