Definitions for stool

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stool stool

Spelling: [stool]

IPA: /stul/

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

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in stool (loost).

Definitions for stool

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 stool

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 stool

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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