n.
- a seat without a back or arms, typically resting on three or four legs or on a single pedestal.
- chiefly Medicine a piece of faeces.
- a root or stump of a tree or plant from which shoots spring.
- US a decoy bird in hunting.
v.
throw up shoots from the root.
▸cut back (a plant) to or near ground level to induce new growth.
Phrase
- fall between two stools
Brit. fail to be or take either of two satisfactory alternatives.
Etymology
OE, of Gmc origin; rel. to stand.
