3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]
4. (Naut.)
Defn: 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.
STOOLBALL
Stool"ball`, n.
Defn: A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp.
with young women.
Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman.
STOOM
Stoom, v. t. Etym: [D. stommen to adulterate, to drug (wine). *163.
Cf. Stum.]
Defn: To stum. [R.]