stool

Plural: stools

Noun

• a simple seat without a back or arms
• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
• (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
• a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
• A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
• A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
• A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
• A footstool.
• A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
• A seat with a back; a chair.
• A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
• A throne.
• A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
• A royal seat; a chief's throne.
• A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
• A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
• Feces, excrement.
• A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
• A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
• A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
• Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
• Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).

Verb

Verb Forms: stooled, stooling, stools

• To defecate; also, to develop shoots from a plant's base.
• lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
• react to a decoy, of wildfowl
• grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
• have a bowel movement
• To produce stool: to defecate.
• To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
• To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

Examples

• He had to STOOL a few letters to find a word that fit the board’s open spots.
• I provided the doctor with stool samples.

Synonyms

BM, ca-ca, can, commode, crap, crapper, defecate, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, make, ordure, pot, potty, shit, take a crap, take a shit, throne, tiller, toilet, Cousin John, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, House of Lords, Jerry, Quincy, WC, bathroom, bedpan, big jobs, big white telephone, bog, bogger, boo-boo, boom-boom, bowel movement, brasco, caca, cack, call of nature, carsey, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, cloaca, closet, closet of decency, closet of ease, cludgie, cottage, crapper trapper, crapping, crud, danna, defecating, defecation, dike, dirt, do do, doing one's ease, doing one's easement, donniker, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, droppings, dump, dumping, dumplings, dung, dunny, easement, excrement, facilities, faex, flop, fudge, gazunder, geography, gong, guano, guzunder, head, highway to hell, hod, honey bucket, honeypot, house of office, ish, jacks, jacques, jakes, jerry, jobby, john, johnny, jordan, karzy, khazi, kocay, ladies and gentlemen, latrine, lats, lav, lavabo, lavatory, lavvy, log, loo, merd, mingo, motion, muck, nature, necessarium, necessary, necessary place, necessary room, necessary stool, neddy, netty, night soil, number two, office, office of ease, pan, pee pot, piss pot, pisser, pisspot, place, po, poo, poo-poo, pooh, poop, pooper, poopie, poopy, porcelain god, porcelain goddess, potty-chair, privy, pure, purging, purging place, restroom, scat, sharn, shield, shitbucket, shitcan, shite, shitpot, shitter, shitting, siege, six, slop bucket, small room, smallest room, soil, spraying, stool, stool of easement, taking a shit, teahouse, tearoom, thost, throne room, thunder mug, thunderbox, toilet room, tom tit, toot, turd, urinal, urination station, usual offices, vault, wardrobe, washroom, waste, water closet, withdraught

Related Words

chair, seat

Anagrams of stool