/stuːl/, /stʉl/
OriginFrom Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand.
The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).
- countable, uncountableA seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- countable, uncountableA footstool.
- Scotland, countable, dialectal, uncountableA seat with a back; a chair.
- Scotland, countable, dialectal, figuratively, literallyA throne.
- Africa, West, countable, uncountableA royal seat; a chief's throne.
- countable, dated, uncountableA close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
- countable, uncountableA plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
“The ground in almost every part of it is covered with stools or stems of Oak, at not more than three feet stool from stool, and these not having been thinned since last cutting, are completely overbur”
“With stool bedding, the plants are pruned back to the ground in the dormant season, and the shoots that form in the spring have juvenile characteristics and are called "juvenile reversion shoots." Sto”
“A coppice may be large, in which case trees, usually ash (Fraxinus) or maple (Acer) are cut, leaving a massive stool from which up to 10 trunks arise; or small, in which case trees, usually hazel (Cor”
- countable, uncountableFeces, excrement.
“I provided the doctor with stool samples.”
“The diagnostic criteria for infant dyschezia are at least 10 minutes of straining and crying before successful passage of soft stools in an otherwise healthy infant less than six months of age.
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“Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.”
- countable, uncountableA production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
“Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed inf”
- archaic, countable, uncountableA decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
- countable, uncountableA small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
“the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet”
- US, countable, dialectal, uncountableMaterial, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- To produce stool: to defecate.
“Infrequent stooling in the first month of life is almost always due to insufficient intake of milk. A baby who is voiding but not stooling or gaining weight may not be receiving enough high fat hindmi”
“Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed inf”
“Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.”
- To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
“Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vi”
“The healthier of your two hollies is multi-stemmed, indicating that it was once stooled (cut down to a point just above the ground). It has since grown back vigorously to become a thick, wide tree whi”
- To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
“I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to ”
“The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage.”
“In a field experiment planted in spring 1969, the red raspberry 'Glen Clova' was grown both in hedgerows and in stooled rows. Although spur blight (Didymella applanata) and cane botrytis (Botrytis cin”
Formsstools(plural) · stools(present, singular, third-person) · stooling(participle, present) · stooled(participle, past) · stooled(past)