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  • n  a simple seat without a back or arms
  • n  solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
  • n  (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
  • n  a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
  • v  lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
  • v  react to a decoy, of wildfowl
  • v  grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
  • v  have a bowel movement

  • That makes for a wobbly stool even when the one leg is strong.
  • For such split-second cooling, Luyet and his associates built a kind of miniature ducking stool.
  • But if there's blood in the stool or the sigmoidoscopy reveals a problem, a more thorough exam is required.
News & Articles

  • No. 1 pick Gerrit Cole set to make highly touted Major League debut
    Gerrit Cole sat on a stool in the cramped locker room at the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league complex in Bradenton, Fla., in late February and thought for a moment. What, exactly, does the burly right-hander love so much about baseball? Sure, the money is great. The potential fame too. Yet for the player considered one of the cornerstones of a franchise rebuilding itself from the ground up, the ...
    June 12, 2013 - WPXI Pittsburgh
  • Pirates debuting RHP Cole, No. 1 pick in '11
    Gerrit Cole sat on a stool in the cramped locker room at the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league complex in Bradenton, Fla., in late February and thought for a moment.
    June 11, 2013 - ESPN
  • Pirates ready to welcome highly touted Cole
    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Gerrit Cole sat on a stool in the cramped locker room at the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league complex in Bradenton, Fla., in late February and thought for a moment.
    June 10, 2013 - The Associated Press via Yahoo! Sports
Quotes

  • Darren Clarke in BBC News
    Yeah, the red stool in the Harbour Bar in Portrush was looking very good for a long time,said Clarke. "But I was just frustrated. Sometimes I make the game as difficult as I possibly can for myself."
  • Raul Ibanez in ESPN
    You can have my urine, my hair, my blood, my stool -- anything you can test,Ibanez said, according to the report.
  • Barack Obama in Washington Post
    Obama told the group, "The recovery package that we're passing is only going to be one leg in at least a three-legged stool."

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