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the humble seat your dog also uses to mean something far less comfortable
means A backless seat for one person, typically perched on three or four legs — or, in medical usage, a piece of feces passed from the bowels.
from From Old English 'stol,' a word for a seat or throne, related to German 'Stuhl' and a distant cousin of words built on the root meaning 'to stand.' For centuries a stool was simply where you sat. The unglamorous bathroom sense arrived later by way of the 'close-stool' or 'stool of ease' — a chamber-pot disguised as a seat — so that 'stool' came to name not just the seat but what was deposited there.
- medical sample
- doctors collect it to read your gut's secrets
- three legs
- tripod design never wobbles on uneven floors
- bar fixture
- named for the throne-like seats of nobility
- toadstool
- the word once just meant any low seat
three-legged stool — basic furniture design with three legs, used for millennia across cultures for stability
piano stool — adjustable height seat used by pianists, typically round with a pedal mechanism
bar stool — tall seat with footrest, standard fixture in bars and restaurants worldwide