Definition of Stool

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Definition of Stool

Stool

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

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

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Stool Quotations

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Chinua Achebe

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
James Hillman

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.
Rick Allen

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.
Warren E. Burger

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Richard Cecil

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.
Bruce Paltrow

Stool Translations

stool in Danish is skammel
stool in Dutch is kruk, taboeret
stool in French is tabouret
stool in German is Hocker, Schemel
stool in Italian is sgabello
stool in Latin is scamnum
stool in Portuguese is tamborete
stool in Spanish is taburete
stool in Swedish is pall

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