stool Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a simple seat without a back or arms
  2. noun solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
    ordure; dejection; BM; faecal matter; feces; faeces; fecal matter.
  3. noun (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
  4. noun a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
    throne; toilet; commode; crapper; potty; can; pot.
  5. verb lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
  6. verb react to a decoy, of wildfowl
  7. verb grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
    tiller.
  8. verb have a bowel movement
    take a shit; crap; defecate; make; ca-ca; take a crap; shit.
    • The dog had made in the flower beds

WordNet

Stool noun
Etymology
L. stolo. See Stolon.
Definitions
  1. (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.
Stool intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.
Stool noun
Etymology
AS. stol a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. stol, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. stoll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. stols, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.
Definitions
  1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
  2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
  3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. U. S.
  4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. Totten.
  5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. J. P. Peters.
  6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
  7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. Local, U.S.

Webster 1913