Stool

[stuːl] or [stʊl]

Definition

(noun.) a simple seat without a back or arms.

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

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

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

(verb.) react to a decoy, of wildfowl.

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

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Definition

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

(v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

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

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

(n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

(n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

(n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

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

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

Typed by Judy

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Seat (without a back).[2]. Discharge (from the bowels), evacuation.[3]. [Local, U. S.] Decoy-bird.

Typed by Hector

Definition

n. a seat without a back: a low bench for the feet or for kneeling on: the seat used in evacuating the bowels: the act of evacuating the bowels also that which is evacuated: a root of any kind from which sprouts shoot up: a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened as a decoy for wild birds.—n. Stool′-pi′geon a decoy-pigeon: a gambler's decoy.—Stool of repentance same as Cutty-stool (q.v.).—Fall between two stools to lose both of two things between the choice of which one was hesitating.

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Examples

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