| 单词 | stool |
| 释义 | stool n. & v. --n 1. a seat without a back or arms, usu. for one person and consisting of a wooden slab on three or four short legs. 2. a = FOOTSTOOL. b a low bench for kneeling on. 3. (usu. in pl.) = FAECES. 4. the root or stump of a tree or plant from which the shoots spring. 5. US a decoy-bird in hunting. --vintr. (of a plant) throw up shoots from the root. Phrases and idioms fall between two stools fail from vacillation between two courses etc. stool-pigeon 1. a person acting as a decoy (orig. a decoy of a pigeon fixed to a stool). 2. a police informer. Etymology: OE stol f. Gmc, rel. to STAND |
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