stool
/stuːl/ · noun
Meaning
- A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
- A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
- A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- Feces, excrement.
- A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
- To produce stool: to defecate.
- To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
- To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
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