Stool
WordNet
noun
(1) A simple seat without a back or arms
(2) A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
(3) (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
(4) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
verb
(5) Have a bowel movement
"The dog had made in the flower beds"
(6) Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
(7) React to a decoy, of wildfowl
(8) Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
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Etymology
From . Confer Dutch stoel (chair), German Stuhl (chair), West Frisian stoel (chair), Icelandic stóll (chair), Old Norse stoll (chair, seat), Swedish, Danish and Norwegian stol (chair), Gothic stols (throne).
Noun
- A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
- A footstool.
- Feces; excrement.
- Usage notes: 'The word stool is preferred to fæces and excrement in medical use.
- A decoy.
Noun
- A denouncer or whistleblower; a stoolie.