1. A simple seat without a back or arms
   "He perched on a bar stool at the counter"
    
2. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
   "The doctor requested a stool sample for testing";
   - fecal matter [N. Amer], faecal matter [Brit, Cdn], feces [N. Amer], faeces [Brit, Cdn], BM, ordure, dejection
    
3. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
   "The coppiced hazel stools produced new shoots each year"
    
4. A decoy bird used in hunting
   "The hunter set up several stools to attract ducks"
    
5. [archaic] A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
   "The old house still had its original stool in the bathroom";
   - toilet, can [N. Amer, informal], commode [N. Amer], pot [informal], potty [informal], throne [informal], loo [Brit, informal]

1. Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
   "The wheat stooled well in the fertile soil";
   - tiller
    
2. Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
   "The hunter stooled ducks using decoys"
    
3. React to a decoy, of wildfowl
   "The ducks stooled to the wooden decoys"
    
4. [archaic] Expel faeces from the body
   "The patient hadn't stooled in three days";
   - defecate, ca-ca [N. Amer, informal], make [informal], defaecate [Brit, rare], poop [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: stools, stooling, stooled

Type of: acquire, body waste, develop, egest, eliminate, entice, excrement, excreta, excrete, excretion, excretory product, get, grow, lure, pass, plumbing fixture, produce, react, reply, respond, seat, stump, tempt, tree stump

Part of: bathroom, bog [Brit, informal], can [N. Amer, informal], closet [archaic], jacks [Ireland, informal], john [informal], lav [informal], lavatory, loo [Brit, informal], toilet, W.C. [Brit], water closet [Brit, archaic]

Encyclopedia: Stool