stool
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So the third leg of the stool is the most important and that is the one that is not being reinforced yet.
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- noun A backless and armless single seat supported on legs or a pedestal.
- noun A low bench or support for the feet or knees in sitting or kneeling, as a footrest.
- noun A toilet seat; a commode.
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- There were dark-skinned Zamorians, of course; two short and slant-eyed men who looked as if they might be Hyrkanians; a pair of sad-eyed and weary-looking women in torn pantaloons who could only be plying the oldest of all trades; finally, perched on a stool was a short and round man with gray hair, who watched Conan as a hawk might watch a serpent. — Conan the Fearless
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So the third leg of the stool is the most important and that is the one that is not being reinforced yet.
— CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009 -
Also the 'power' to pass out a large stool is reduced (the rectum becomes 'floppy').
— tequilamonky Diary Entry -
* When a stool is eventually passed, because the rectum is distended and weakened, it simply fills up fairly quickly again with more hard stool from the backlog behind.
— tequilamonky Diary Entry - Talk about an actor! — The Circus of Adventure
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- Middle English, from Old English stōl; see stā- in Indo-European roots.
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