stool /stuːl/noun 14verb 3forms 3 noun14 •A seat, especially for one person and without armrests. •A seat for one person without a back or armrests. •A royal seat; a chief's throne. •(dialect, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair. •(dialect, figurative) A throne. •Feces; excrement.I provided the doctor with stool samples. •A production of feces or excrement; an act of defecation, stooling. •A footstool. •(old-fashioned) 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. •(slang) An informer to the police. •A 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 — 1972 •(dialect, US) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. •(no longer used) A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds. verb3 •To produce stool: to defecate.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. — 2014 •To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage. — 1904 •To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. formsstooled · stooling · stools
