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A low stool.

STOOL
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.
STOOLBALL
A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women. Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman.
FREEDSTOOL
See FRIDSTOL
BISHOP-STOOL
A bishop's seat or see.
CUTTYSTOOL
1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
CUCKING STOOL
A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also
TOADSTOOL
A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
FALDSTOOL
A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt. Note: In the modern practice of the Church
FOOTSTOOL
A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
FRIDSTOL; FRITHSTOOL
A seat in churches near the altar, to which offenders formerly fled for sanctuary.
CLOSE-STOOL
A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.