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stool

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1. stool - Noun

2. stool - Verb

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A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. Chinua Achebe

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them. Elbert Hubbard

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. Richard Cecil

The frog will jump back into the pool, although it sits on a golden stool. Dutch Proverb

Don't be breaking your shin on a stool that's not in your way. Irish Proverb

The grindstones can neither be used as a stool nor a headrest. African Proverb

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