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  • noun Plural form of stepstool.

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Examples

  • We were royalty, and the Boston Red Sox were our minions, our personal, perennial stepstools.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • If safety regulations, say, make stepstools sufficiently more expensive, it may simply lead to more people standing on chairs.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

  • We were royalty, and the Boston Red Sox were our minions, our personal, perennial stepstools.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • The roofs and windows of the apartments past the outfield wall were jam-packed as well, and people must have been perched on ladders and stepstools at the walls themselves, because Ruby could see heads poking up over the cigarette and candy ads.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • If safety regulations, say, make stepstools sufficiently more expensive, it may simply lead to more people standing on chairs.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010

  • The roofs and windows of the apartments past the outfield wall were jam-packed as well, and people must have been perched on ladders and stepstools at the walls themselves, because Ruby could see heads poking up over the cigarette and candy ads.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • The roofs and windows of the apartments past the outfield wall were jam-packed as well, and people must have been perched on ladders and stepstools at the walls themselves, because Ruby could see heads poking up over the cigarette and candy ads.

    DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010

  • You should see how mant damn stepstools I have (knowingly and unknowingly) .... so unhealthy ....

    Or charity. Jessica Hagy 2006

  • Pat Owens, the tiny powerhouse of a mayor who stood on stepstools to reach the microphones that reached out to the nation for help, painted a picture of our plight through her words and her determination.

    Traie Dockter: Flood Lessons Learned in Grand Forks Could Help Midwest 2007

  • The handlers brought stepstools to assist in mounting.

    Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

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