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What does stool mean?

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Noun
  1. A seat for one person without a back or armrest, particularly:
    1. A footstool.
    2. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
    3. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) Throne.
    4. (horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
    5. (obsolete) A seat used for urination and defecation: a chamberpot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
  2. (medicine) Feces, excrement.
  3. (archaic) A decoy.
  4. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
  5. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
Verb
  1. (medicine) To produce stool, to defecate.
  2. (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
Noun
  1. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Verb
  1. (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
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