| 释义 |
stool /stool/ noun- A seat without a back
- A low support for the feet or knees
- Formerly, a seat used in evacuating the bowels
- Hence, defecation
- (usu in pl) faeces
- A chair, seat of authority or dignity, throne (obsolete)
- A stand
- A tree or shrub cut back to ground level and allowed to produce new shoots (horticulture)
- A stump from which sprouts shoot up
- A growth of shoots
- The wicket in stoolball
- A piece of wood to which a bird is fastened as a decoy in hunting
intransitive verb- To put forth shoots
- To lure wildfowl with a stool
- To evacuate the bowels (archaic)
ORIGIN: OE stōl; Ger Stuhl; cf Ger stellen to place stoolie noun see stool pigeon below stoolˈball noun An old game resembling cricket stool pigeon noun - A decoy pigeon
- A decoy
- A police informer (shortened form stoolˈie; slang)
fall between two stools To lose both possibilities by hesitating between them, or trying for both stool of repentance A place, esp in Scottish churches, where delinquents, esp fornicators, were exposed |