Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stool made of parts fitted or joined together, as distinguished from one more roughly made, as from planks.
- noun Any supporting rest or block used for holding the ends of two abutting parts, as the ends of rails, ships’ ways, etc.
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Examples
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A man of business never wants a counter if he can meet with a joint-stool.
Cecilia 2008
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As for the younger magnates, the honour of being permitted to join the imperial conversation was expected to render them far superior to the paltry accommodation of a joint-stool.
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It is surprising, he says, that the court of Rome has not among all its relics some little fancy-box or joint-stool of His workmanship.
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When I came into the shop, seeing no chair or stool, I went behind the compter, and sat down under an arched kind of canopy of carved work, which these proud traders, emulating the royal niche-fillers, often give themselves, while a joint-stool, perhaps, serves those by whom they get their bread: such is the dignity of trade in this mercantile nation!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple.
Waverley 2004
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Though Partridge was one of the most superstitious of men, he would hardly perhaps have desired to accompany Jones on his expedition merely from the omens of the joint-stool and white mare, if his prospect had been no better than to have shared the plunder gained in the field of battle.
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During that term he was to be the property of his master, and as much a commodity of bargain and sale as an ox, or a joint-stool.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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Each thing is a passive man, and personification does no more than justice to the joint-stool and the fence or whatever creature talks and suffers in verse.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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Quickly, who had been knocked over the head with a joint-stool while rifling the pockets of a drunken guest; but perhaps Sir John wished to speak well of the dead, even at the price of conferring upon the present home of Sir John an idyllic atmosphere denied it by the London constabulary.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918
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During that term he was to be the property of his master, and as much a commodity of bargain and sale as an ox, or a joint-stool.
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