stool
/stuːl/ nom B2En français : tabouret, selle
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- A footstool.
- A royal seat; a chief's throne.
- A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
- Feces; excrement. · I provided the doctor with stool samples.
- A production of feces or excrement; an act of defecation, stooling.
- A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
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Dans la bibliothèque
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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