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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A stool used to sit on while milking a cow. The stool in common use has three legs. In Switzerland one is used consisting of a disk which can be strapped to the person, with a sharpened or pointed prop about a foot long.

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Examples

  • But Jim picked up a loose leg of a milking-stool, and the two went at it hammer and tongs.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

  • "Go, bring that milking-stool, yonder, and sit down here while I talk with you a little," said uncle Nathan, pointing toward three or four stools, that hung on the picket fence in the back garden.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • After half an hour he came back to the farm house all cut-up, and he had one leg of the milking-stool in his hand.

    Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

  • He took the pail and the milking-stool and went out to the barn.

    Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

  • But when I arrived at the pen, a tin bucket in one hand, a milking-stool in the other, and letting down the bars, crept inside, the cows eyed me with evident distrust and even shook their horns in a menacing manner which quite alarmed me.

    Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

  • Mary ran across the cabbage patch, and brought the milking-stool, which she placed near the old man.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • So Mabel took the tin pail, and sat down on the little low milking-stool; and soon, to her father's astonishment, she finished milking, the cow having stood all the while as quiet as a lamb.

    The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People Various

  • However, Jakobi sends word we need not fear her disgracing herself, for he is training her up and down with a milking-stool on her head.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

  • Wynter, picking up a milking-stool, advances leisurely towards him, and seating herself upon it just in front of him, crosses her hands over her knees and looks expectantly up at him with a charming smile.

    A Little Rebel A Novel

  • Taking one of the tin pails and a milking-stool, she set off across the fields to the pasture in which her two cows were grazing.

    Women of the Country Gertrude Bone

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