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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
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
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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