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stool

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Noun

  1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
  2. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A footstool.
  3. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A seat with a back; a chair.
  4. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A throne.
  5. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests: A royal seat; a chief's throne.
  6. A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
  7. A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
  8. Feces, excrement.
  9. A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
  10. A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
  11. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
  12. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
  13. Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).

Verb

  1. To produce stool: to defecate.
  2. To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
  3. To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

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