Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A light folding stool.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A seat or stool with cross-legs and a flexible seat, so made as to be folded up and packed away when not in use.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.
- n. a folding stool.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a folding stool
Etymologies
- camp + stool (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Then Miss Stein gets out and sits on a campstool with pencil and pad, and Miss Toklas fearlessly switches a cow into her line of vision.”
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“He sat on a campstool, peeler in hand, and performed all manner of surgical wonders on carrots, zucchini, and Idaho potatoes.”
“The table and his campstool were so low to the ground that he worked from a perpetual crouch, like a catcher.”
“Amalric poured wine from a ewer of green Tyrian glass into a matching goblet and gave it to Sabin who took it gratefully and sat down on a campstool.”
“He rode hurriedly from the battlefield and returned to the Shevardino knoll, where he sat on his campstool, his sallow face swollen and heavy, his eyes dim, his nose red, and his voice hoarse, involuntarily listening, with downcast eyes, to the sounds of firing.”
“He sat silently on a campstool below the knoll, with head bowed and elbows on his knees.”
“When Derian entered, he found Earl Kestrel seated on a campstool, making notes in a leather-bound book resting on a collapsible table.”
“Derian balanced on a second campstool, his hands folded stiffly on his knees.”
“Derian brought forward a campstool and offered it to Elise.”
“Teemu kept the radio on a small campstool beside his tent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘campstool’.
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Camp
I'll bring the bug spray and the waterproof matches.
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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heart of darkness
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
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Tweets
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hernesheir My family's simple campstools each had a pair of folding X-hinged legs, each pair braced with a simple stretcher, and topped by a folding uncolored canvas seat firmly tacked onto the seat frame that crowned the pair of folding legs. Folded, the stools occupied little room in the vehicle we took on our excursions into Nature. Feb 17, 2011