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stool
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)
- A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- A footstool.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.
- (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
- (horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:feces
- (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- Synonyms: see 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- (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)
- (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 Thesaurus:defecate
Etymology 2
Latin stolo. See stolon.
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.
- 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:
References
Anagrams
- loots, lotos, sloot, sotol, tools, tosol
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stul/
Noun
stool m or f (plural stools)
- (Canada, slang, derogatory) A denouncer or whistleblower; a stoolie.
Derived terms
- stooleux
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barstool
English
Noun
barstool (plural barstools)
- Alternative form of bar stool
Translations
Anagrams
- Bartolos, tool bars, tool-bars, toolbars
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