Stool

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1. Noun

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

2. Verb

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

3. Noun

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

4. Noun

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

5. Noun

A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

6. Noun

A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

7. Noun

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

8. Noun

A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

9. Noun

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

10. Noun

(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
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