different between shool vs stool

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English shovele, schovel, showell, shoule, shole (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English s?ofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skufl?, *sk?fl? (“shovel”), equivalent to shove +? -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).

Noun

shool (plural shools)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) A shovel.
   • 1611 And the pots, and the shouels, and the snuffers, and the spoones, and all the vessels of brasse wherewith they ministred, tooke they away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 1611 edition)
   • 2003 And the pots, and the shovels, and the wick trimmers, and the ladles, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered, they took away. (2 Kings 25:14, Authorized Version of 1611 (King James Version), 2003 edition)
2. (obsolete or dialectal) A spade.
   • 2010 "shool spade see shovel" (A Bibliography of English Etymology, Volumes 1-2 by Anatoly Liberman, Ari Hoptman, Nathan E. Carlson, U of Minnesota Press, 2010, page 785)

Verb

shool (third-person singular simple present shools, present participle shooling, simple past and past participle shooled)

1. To move materials with a shovel.

   The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
   • 1898 The Winter's Tale [Annotated] by William Shakespeare, H. H. Furness, page 236, [Annotation for line] 511. shouels-in...Jamieson (Scottish Dict. Suppl.) gives: 'Shool, A shovel' and 'To shool on, metaph. to cover, as in a grave.'
3. To shuffle or shamble.
4. To go about begging.

References

• Lexic.us, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  Definition of Shool 1. to shovel [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shovel

• TheFreeDictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  shool n (Engineering / Tools) a dialect word for shovel,

• Dictionary.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  shool — n a dialect word for shovel,

• Merriam-Webster.com, Retrieved 2013-02-14

  Definition of SHOOL...

  1 chiefly dial : to drag or scrape along : shamble, shuffle

  2: to loaf or idle about begging : loiter, saunter

Etymology 2

Noun

shool (plural shools)

1. Dated form of shul (“Ashkenazic synagogue”).

Anagrams

• Loosh, holos, hools

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stu?l/
• Rhymes: -u?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English st?l (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-Germanic *st?laz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh?los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian ???? (stol, “table”), Russian ???? (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek ????? (st?l?, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh?- (“to stand”). More at stand.

The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).

Noun

stool (countable and uncountable, plural stools)

1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
   1. A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
   2. A footstool.
   3. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.
   4. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.
2. (obsolete) A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.

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

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces
5. (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:defecation
6. (archaic) A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
7. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• chair
• seat

Verb

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

1. (chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate.
2. (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:defecate

Etymology 2

Latin stolo. See stolon.

Noun

stool (plural stools)

1. 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)

1. (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.

References

Anagrams

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stul/

Noun

stool m or f (plural stools)

1. (Canada, slang, derogatory) A denouncer or whistleblower; a stoolie.

Derived terms

• stooleux