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stooling, vbl. n.|ˈstuːlɪŋ|
[f. stool v. and n. + -ing1.]
1. The action or process of evacuating the bowels; also, concr. the matter evacuated.
1599Minsheu Span. Gram. 81 Rézias camaras. Strong stoolings. a1610Healey Epictetus (1636) 82 To bee alway conversant in corporall matters:..in much eating, drinking, stooling. 1695New Light Chirurg. put out 38 The Stooling of bloody Excrement. 1895Elworthy Evil Eye 74 'Tis a very bad thing to throw a child's stooling in the fire.
2. The action of throwing up young shoots or stems; of corn, etc., the forming of a thick head from lateral shoots.
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Stooling, the second germination of corn. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 254 Trimming does thicken the surface of the hedge by causing a stubbed, stooling form of growth. 1901Dundee Advertiser 15 Jan. 4 The ‘stooling’ or tillering habits of these varieties [of oat] being weak.
3. concr. The framework supporting a mill (cf. stool n. 10).
1558in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1565, 411/1 Sustentarent dicta molendina in omnibus necessariis, nisi tantum in ly stuling quod [etc.]. 1606Ibid. 616/1 Lie stuilling cum mylnedame et mylneleid sustentando. |