stool

1 a simple seat without a back or arms

2 solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, ordure, dejection]

3 (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

4 a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne]

1 lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

2 react to a decoy, of wildfowl

3 grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers [syn: tiller]

4 have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]

English

Etymology

From stol. Confer Dutch stoel (chair), German Stuhl (chair), Iceland stóll (chair), Old Norse stoll (chair, seat), Gothic stols (throne). West Frisian stoel (chair) is pronounced exactly the same as its English counterpart.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːl

Noun

1. A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
2. A footstool.
3. Feces; excrement.
   • Usage notes: 'The word stool is preferred to fæces and excrement in medical use.
4. A decoy.

Derived terms

• footstool
• stool pigeon
• stoolie

Translations

a footstool

See translations at footstool

See also

• chair
• seat

Anagrams

• loots
• tools

A stool can refer to: a greg hopkins A type of chair without back and arm rests.

• • A bar stool
  • footstool
• A flush toilet, in some dialects
• Feces:

In particular, human feces

Categorized using the Bristol Stool Scale

• Short-slang for Stool Pigeon.
• A living stump capable of producing sprouts or cuttings.

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