Stool - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |stuːl|  American pronunciation of the word stool
Brit.  |stuːl|  British pronunciation of the word stool

noun

- a simple seat without a back or arms
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels (syn: dejection, faeces, feces, ordure)
- (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination (syn: can, commode, pot, potty, throne, toilet)

verb

- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
- grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers (syn: tiller)
- have a bowel movement (syn: crap, defecate, make, shit)

Extra examples

She sat on a stool.

The patient had bloody stools.

The stool's seat is broken.

He overbalanced and fell off the stool.

She tried to reach the vase but overbalanced herself and fell off the stool.

...the FBI finally got a break when one of the mob boss's top henchmen turned stool pigeon...

Gail hitched herself up onto the high stool.

Bobby had perched himself on a tall wooden stool.

Andy reeled away from the bar and knocked over his stool.

I upended the bucket to use as a stool.

Word forms

noun
singular: stool
plural: stools
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