STOOL

Stool

A stool is one of the earliest forms of seat furniture. It bears many similarities to a chair. It consists of a single seat, without back or armrests, on a base of either three or four legs. A stool is distinguished from chairs by their lack of arms and a back. Variants exist with any number of legs from one to five. Some people call these various stools "backless chairs".

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stool

Noun

  1. A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
  2. A footstool.
  3. Feces; excrement.
  4. A decoy.
  5. A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
  6. Throne.
  7. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
  8. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
  9. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

Verb

  1. To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.


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