*stool*

n. a folding stool. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Cf. AS. scealfingstōl, a word of similar meaning, allied to scealfor a diver, mergus avis; or possibly from F. coquine a hussy, slut, jade, f. of coquin, OE. cokin, a rascal; or cf. Icel. k&unr_;ka to dung, k&unr_;kr dung, the name being given as to a disgracing or infamous punishment. ] A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A low stool. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Faldistory. ] A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the modern practice of the Church of England, the term faldstool is given to the reading desk from which the litany is read. This esage is a relic of the ancient use of a lectern folding like a camp stool. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Fridstol. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ AS. friðstōl. See Fred, and Stool. ] A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary. [ Written variously fridstool, freedstool, etc. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stolo. See Stolon. ] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. stōl a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. stōl, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. stōll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. stōls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. √163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil. ] 1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. J. P. Peters. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Stool of a window, or
Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat. --
Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [ Scot. ] --
Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nausicaa
With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]