a simple seat without a back or arms
"The old gardener sat on a wooden stool while he trimmed the hedges."
solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
"The doctor asked if his stool had changed in color or consistency since taking the new medication."
(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
"The forester carefully inspected each stool to ensure it was healthy enough for producing new saplings."
A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
"The gardener carefully bent a branch of the fig stool down to the ground so it could root and grow into a new tree."
A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
In plain English: A stool is a small seat without a back or arms that you sit on, often used as a table leg or bathroom fixture for waste elimination.
"He placed his feet up on the wooden stool while reading in the corner."
Usage: The most common everyday meaning of stool is a simple seat without back or arms, often made of wood or plastic. Do not confuse this furniture item with the medical term for excrement unless specifically discussing health topics.
lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
"The hunters placed a decoy goose on the stool to attract more birds into range."
react to a decoy, of wildfowl
"The startled goose took flight after seeing another bird acting as a decoy lure in the marsh."
have a bowel movement
"The dog had made in the flower beds"
To produce stool: to defecate.
"The old farmer knew he had to pull up the stool in his cornfield before it choked out the main crop."
To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
In plain English: To stool means to move your bowels, which is another way of saying you go number two.
"After drinking too much coffee, he had to rush outside for a stool in the garden shed."
From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl ("chair, seat, throne"), from Proto-West Germanic stōl, from Proto-Germanic stōlaz ("chair") (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, "table"), Russian стул (stul, "chair"), Serbo-Croatian stol ("table"), Slovene stol ("chair"), Albanian kështallë ("crutch"), Ancient Greek στ...