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stool

Pronunciation: /stuːl/

The English word “stool” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
  2. A footstool.
  3. A seat with a back; a chair.
  4. A throne.
  5. A royal seat; a chief's throne.
  6. A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
  7. A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
  8. Feces; excrement.
  9. A production of feces or excrement; an act of defecation, stooling.
  10. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
  11. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
  12. A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
  13. An informer to the police.

verb

  1. To produce stool: to defecate.
  2. To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
  3. To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

Etymology

From Middle English stool, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (“frame, rack, stand”), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian stuul, stölj, Stööl (“chear”), Saterland Frisian Stoul (“chear”), West Frisian stoel (“chair, seat”), Dutch stoel (“chair”), German Stuhl…

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