stool
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A footstool.
- A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A seat with a back; a chair.
- A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A throne.
- A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A royal seat; a chief's throne.
- A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
- A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- Feces, excrement.
- A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
- A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
Verb
- To produce stool: to defecate.
- To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
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