stool
/stuːl/ verb C2- To produce stool: to defecate.
- To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- To snitch, inform.
He/she/it stools · Past stooled · Past participle stooled · -ing form stooling
Verb forms
- Base form
- stool
- He/she/it
- stools
- Past
- stooled
- Past participle
- stooled
- -ing form
- stooling
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The prisoner followed his guide, who led him into a room almost under ground, whose bare and reeking walls seemed as though impregnated with tears; a lamp placed on a stool illumined the apartment faintly, and showed Dantès the features of his conductor, an under-jailer, ill-clothed, and of sullen appearance.
“Well,” said Dantès, “mark this; if you refuse at least to tell Mercédès I am here, I will some day hide myself behind the door, and when you enter I will dash out your brains with this stool.”
Dantès whirled the stool round his head.
As they drew near, the cow suddenly gave a kick and kicked over the stool, the pail, and even the milkmaid herself, and all fell on the china ground with a great clatter.
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