stool

/stu:l/
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stool

A child sits on a small wooden stool while tying his shoes.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A simple seat without a back or arms: A piece of furniture designed for sitting on, typically consisting of a flat top and three or four legs.
    • Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels: Feces; waste matter discharged from the intestines.
    • A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination: A toilet, especially one that is not part of a full bathroom suite.
    • (Forestry) The stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings: The base of a cut tree from which new shoots grow.

  2. Verb:

    • To have a bowel movement: To defecate.
    • To grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers: (Of a plant) to send up new shoots from the base or root.
    • To lure with a stool, as of wild fowl: To use a decoy, especially a pigeon, to attract other birds.
    • To react to a decoy, of wildfowl: (Of birds) to be attracted by a decoy.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • He sat on a wooden stool at the bar. (He used a simple backless seat.)
    • The doctor asked for a sample of his stool. (The doctor requested a sample of feces.)
    • The old house had an outdoor stool. (The house had an external toilet fixture.)
    • New shoots emerged from the stool of the felled tree. (New growth came from the tree stump.)

  • Verb:

    • The patient needs to stool into the container for the test. (The patient must defecate into the container.)
    • The raspberry bushes will stool vigorously in the spring. (The bushes will produce many new shoots from the base.)
    • Hunters used to stool for pigeons in that field. (Hunters used decoys to attract pigeons there.)
Advanced Usage
  • "To fall between two stools" (Idiom): To fail because of an inability to choose between or reconcile two alternatives.
    • His film tried to be both a comedy and a thriller and fell between two stools. (It failed to succeed as either genre.)
Variants and Related Words
  • Stool pigeon (n): A person acting as a decoy or informer, especially for the police.
    • The gang discovered he was a stool pigeon.
  • Stool sample (n): A small amount of feces collected for medical analysis.
    • The lab tested the stool sample for parasites.
  • Footstool (n): A low stool for resting the feet on.
    • She put her feet up on the footstool.
Synonyms
  • Noun (seat): Seat, footrest, ottoman.
  • Noun (feces): Feces, excrement, waste.
  • Noun (toilet): Toilet, commode, latrine.
  • Verb (defecate): Defecate, excrete, move one's bowels.
Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its verbal uses are as defined above.)

Related Idioms
  • "Between two stools": In a position where one risks failing to achieve either of two objectives.
    • By not specializing, he found himself caught between two stools.
stool

A child sits on a small wooden stool while tying his shoes.

Noun
  1. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
  2. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
  3. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
  4. a simple seat without a back or arms
Verb
  1. have a bowel movement
    • The dog had made in the flower beds
  2. grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
  3. react to a decoy, of wildfowl
  4. lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

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