Definitions for stools

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stools stool

Spelling: [stool]

IPA: /stul/

Stools is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in stools (loosst).

Definitions for stools

noun

1. a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
2. a short, low support on which to stand, step, kneel, or rest the feet while sitting.
3. Horticulture. the stump, base, or root of a plant from which propagative organs are produced, as shoots for layering.
4. the base of a plant that annually produces new stems or shoots.
5. a cluster of shoots or stems springing up from such a base or from any root, or a single shoot or layer.
6. a bird fastened to a pole or perch and used as a decoy.
7. an artificial duck or other bird, usually made from wood, used as a decoy by hunters.
8. a privy.
9. the fecal matter evacuated at each movement of the bowels.
10. the sill of a window.
11. a bishop's seat considered as symbolic of his authority; see.
12. the sacred chair of certain African chiefs, symbolic of their kingship.

Idioms

1. fall between two stools, to fail, through hesitation or indecision, to select either of two alternatives.

verb (used without object)

1. to put forth shoots from the base or root, as a plant; form a stool.
2. Slang. to turn informer; serve as a stool pigeon.

Origin of stools

before 900; Middle English; Old English stōl; cognate with German Stuhl, Old Norse stōll, Gothic stols chair; all Germanic *stō- (Indo-European root of stand) + *-l-

Examples for stools

In the kitchen their mother sat on a stool, and peeled potatoes.

His head dropped back on his chair; he propped his sagging legs on a stool.

Long wisps fall across her forehead as she sits very straight on her stool, her narrow shoulder blades drawn back elegantly.

He noticed her in the crowd while he was sitting on his stool between rounds.

Everman had his last drink and left for the night when a friend grabbed me by the arm, yanking me off my stool.

Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool.

I try to catch the eye of this third boy, but he plops down onto a stool and avoids my gaze.

And, casting the pen down, he turned his stool round impatiently.

And he sprang from his stool, as their teacher entered the schoolroom door.

Gracie, shielded by the distance, turned on her stool and studied him.