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Substantiivi

1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
2. (rare) Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
3. A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
4. A footstool.
5. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.
6. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.
7. (West Africa) A royal seat; a chief's throne.
8. (dated) A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
9. (horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
10. (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
11. (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
12. (archaic) A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
13. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
14. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Verbi

1. (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
2. (chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate.
3. (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.