stool

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (chair, seat, throne), from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (chair) (compare West Frisian/Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Danish/Norwegian stol), from Proto-Indo-European *stālo (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian  (stol') 'table', Serbo-Croatian stol 'table', Slovenian stol 'chair', Albanian kështallë 'crutch', Ancient Greek stolōn 'pillar'), from *stā- 'to stand'. More at stand.

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Noun [edit]

stool (plural stools)

  1. A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
  2. A footstool.
  3. (chiefly medicine) Feces; excrement.
  4. (archaic) A decoy.
  5. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
  6. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) (literally and figuratively) Throne.
  7. (obsolete) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
  8. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
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  9. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

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Noun [edit]

stool m and f (plural stools)

  1. (Canada, slang, derogatory) A denouncer or whistleblower; a stoolie.

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