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Stool   /stul/   Listen
Stool

noun
1.
A simple seat without a back or arms.
2.
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.  Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure.
3.
(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings.
4.
A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.  Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne, toilet.
verb
1.
Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl.
2.
React to a decoy, of wildfowl.
3.
Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers.  Synonym: tiller.
4.
Have a bowel movement.  Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, shit, take a crap, take a shit.



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"Stool" Quotes from Famous Books



... if I do. Beg pardon. Of course I don't. I mean the fellow as is perched up on a high stool in that there office, this very minute, ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson

... that was, that Aunt Peggy cared nothing about religion. When employed in the family, she had been obliged to go sometimes to church: since she had been old, and left to follow her own wishes, she had never gone. Miss Janet frequently read the Bible, and explained it to her. Alice, seated on a low stool by the old woman's side, read to her scenes in the life of Christ, upon which servants love to dwell. But as far as they could judge, there were no good impressions left on her mind. She never objected, but she gave them no encouragement. ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman

... not seem in a hurry to undress and go to bed. Mother brushed Rose's hair for her and the girl got ready for bed in the larger stateroom. When she went into the other room there was Russ sitting on the stool with ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's • Laura Lee Hope

... way with the fire, the little girl came and took a low stool beside me. She looked into the fire too, laying her cheek upon my hand, which rested on the arm of the chair. She does not care for our talks about other hearth fires that long ago went out, so we had to do something else to entertain her. "Did you want to know more about the Daughter ...
— The Wagner Story Book • Henry Frost

... against the end of which a crutch is is placed. Mrs. Secord, occupies a rocking-chair near the lounge. Charlie, a little fellow of four, is seated on her lap holding a ball of yarn from which she is knitting. Charlotte, a girl of twelve, is seated on a stool set a little in rear of the couch; she has a lesson-book in her hand. Harriet, a girl of ten, occupies a stool near her sister, and has a slate on her lap. All are listening intently to the Quaker, who ...
— Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. - A Drama. And Other Poems. • Sarah Anne Curzon


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