stoolmaking

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English

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Etymology

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From stool +‎ making.

Noun

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stoolmaking (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of stools.
    Coordinate term: chairmaking
    • 1937, Margaret Trowell, African Arts and Crafts, Their Development in the School, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 83:
      Amongst the Kenya tribes the Wakamba are outstanding artistically, their figure carving, stoolmaking, wood decoration both by engraving and with wire are illustrated here.
    • 2019 May 13, Roisin Murphy, “Objects of desire”, in Irish Independent[1]:
      I was on a jaunt to collect a bar of soap from Kaethe Burt-O'Dea's Bi Urban, a studio workshop initiative in Dublin's Stoneybatter, and already aware of the work of Feargus De Brun, a well-regarded furniture-maker who runs stoolmaking workshops there.