noun.
A seat or chair; now, in particular, a seat, whether high or low, consisting of a piece of wood mounted usually on three or four legs, and without a back, intended for one person; also, any support of like construction used as a rest for the feet, or for the knees when kneeling.
noun.
The seat of a bishop; a see.
noun.
Same as ducking-stool.
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The seat used in easing the bowels; hence, a fecal evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
noun.
A frame for tapestry-work.
noun.
The root or stump of a timber-tree, or of a bush, cane, grass, etc., which throws up shoots; also, the cluster of shoots thus produced.
noun.
The mother plant from which young plants are propagated by the process of layering.
noun.
Nautical: A small channel in the side of a vessel for the deadeyes of the backstays.
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An ornamental block placed over the stem to support a poop-lantern.
noun.
A movable pole or perch to which a pigeon is fastened as a lure or decoy for wild birds. See the extract under stool-pigeon, 1.
noun.
Hence A stool-pigeon; also, a decoy-duck.
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Material spread on the bottom for oysterspat to cling to; set, either natural or artificial. See Cultch.
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(See also camp-stool, footstool, night-stool, piano-stool.)
To throw up shoots from the root, as a grass or a grain-plant; form a stool. See stool, n., 6.
To decoy duck or other fowl by means of stools.
To be decoyed; respond to a decoy.
To evacuate the bowels.
To plow; cultivate.
noun.
In wooden ships, one of the pieces of plank bolted to the quarters for the purpose of forming and erecting the galleries; also, one of the ornamental blocks for the poop lanterns to stand on abaft.
noun.
In iron ship-building, a small foundation or seating for the support of some part of the machinery, as the shaft-bearings, pumps, etc.