Stool

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ÊŠÉ™l
• Rhymes: -uːl

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl ("chair, seat, throne"), from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz ("chair") (compare West Frisian/Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Danish/Norwegian stol), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, "table"), Serbo-Croatian stol 'table', Slovenian stol 'chair', Albanian kështallë 'crutch', Ancient Greek stolōn 'pillar'), from *steh₂- ("to stand"). More at stand.

Full definition of stool

Noun

1. A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
2. A footstool.
3. (chiefly medicine) Feces; excrement.
4. (archaic) A decoy.
5. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
6. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) (literally and figuratively) Throne.
7. (obsolete) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
8. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
9. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• footstool
• stool pigeon
• stoolie
• window stool

Latin stolo. See stolon.

Noun

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

Verb

1. (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
• 1869, Richard D. Blackmore, ,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.

Anagrams

• loots
• tools