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Window stool

Stool \Stool\, n. [AS. st[=o]l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. st[=o]l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st[=o]ll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. st[=o]ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. [root]163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.]

  1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

  2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

  3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]

  4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
    --Totten.

  5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
    --J. P. Peters.

  6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

  7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]

    Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.

    Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [Scot.]

    Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.

Usage examples of "window stool".

It came to the window, jumped up, put its paws on the window stool, and peered in at her.

It was perched on the window stool, gazing through the glass at him.

That much accomplished, she climbed up on to the window stool and commenced her fly-crawl up the marble side of the building.

Andi carried and Lena retreated to the far end of the couch when Andi reassumed the reins, chattering baby talk to Simone who had decided with undampenable resolve that climbing up on the window stool was the most sincere and ardent goal of her life.