stool
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /stuːl/
stool
- A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
- (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.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:feces
- (chiefly, medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling#Noun|stooling.
- Synonyms: 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.
- French: tabouret, tabouret-bar
- German: Hocker
- Italian: sgabello, trespolo, scanno
- Portuguese: banco, tamborete, banquinho, banqueta
- Russian: табуре́т
- Spanish: taburete, silla
- French: selle
- German: Stuhl, Stuhlgang, Exkrement, Exkret, Kot
- Italian: feci, escremento
- Portuguese: cocô, merda, fez
- Russian: стул
- Spanish: excremento, heces
- Russian: прима́нка
stool (stools, present participle stooling; 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.
stool (plural stools)
Verbstool (stools, present participle stooling; past and past participle stooled)
- (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
- 1869, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, chapter 38:
- I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
- 1869, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, chapter 38:
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