(n): furniture that is designed for sitting on
(n): solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
(n): waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
(n): (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
(n): the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
(n): a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
(n): a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building
(v): lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
(v): provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion
(v): react to a decoy, of wildfowl
(v): show a response or a reaction to something
(v): grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
(v): come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
(v): have a bowel movement
(v): eliminate from the body
On
an alloy stool towards late afternoon
I spin with, under me, coiled-round chrome,
legs belonging to one quite elsewhere.
- Peter Reading, Almshouse, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974