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Stool
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- 1 A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A seat for one person without a back or armrests. countable, uncountable
- 2 Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”). alt-of, alternative, rare
"The process of layering is well known: it consists in bending a young branch […] into the soil to a certain depth, and elevating the top part of it out of the soil in an upright direction; in time the buried part takes root, and the shoot becomes a perfect plant. The root which produces the young shoots for layering is called the stool. Stools are planted about six feet apart every way in a deep fresh soil. […] Stool. – The root of a tree which has been left in the ground, the produce of another tree, or shoot for saplings, underwood, &c."
- 3 a simple seat without a back or arms wordnet
- 4 A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A footstool. countable, uncountable
- 5 a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination wordnet
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- 6 A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A seat with a back; a chair. Scotland, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 7 (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings wordnet
- 8 A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A throne. Scotland, countable, dialectal, figuratively, literally, uncountable
- 9 solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels wordnet
- 10 A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A royal seat; a chief's throne. Africa, West, countable, uncountable
- 11 A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet. countable, dated, uncountable
- 12 A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. countable, uncountable
"The ground in almost every part of it is covered with stools or stems of Oak, at not more than three feet stool from stool, and these not having been thinned since last cutting, are completely overburdened, and are evidently killing each other and dying for want of nourishment […]"
- 13 Feces, excrement. countable, uncountable
"I provided the doctor with stool samples."
- 14 A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling. countable, uncountable
"Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed infants during the first month of life."
- 15 A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 16 A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays. countable, uncountable
"the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet"
- 17 Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. US, countable, dialectal, uncountable
- 1 To produce stool: to defecate.
"Infrequent stooling in the first month of life is almost always due to insufficient intake of milk. A baby who is voiding but not stooling or gaining weight may not be receiving enough high fat hindmilk. Stooling frequency will correct itself with additional feeds or making sure the infant receives more hind milk at a feed."
- 2 To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
"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."
- 3 have a bowel movement wordnet
- 4 To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
"Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size. […] Those [plants] that generate many small stems crowded together are difficult to pollard so they are normally stooled. Some people refer to stooling as coppice."
- 5 grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers wordnet
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- 6 react to a decoy, of wildfowl wordnet
- 7 lure with a stool, as of wild fowl wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand. The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).
From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand. The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).
From Latin stolo. See stolon.
From Latin stolo. See stolon.
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