[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stool \stool\, n. as. st=ol a seat; akin to ofries.  os.
   st=ol, d. stoel, g. stuhl, ohg. stuol, icel. st=oll, sw.
    dan. stol, goth. st=ols, lith. stalas a table, russ.
   stol'; from the root of e. stand. root163. see stand, and
   cf. fauteuil.
   1. a single seat with three or four legs and without a back,
      made in various forms for various uses.
      1913 webster

   2. a seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an
      evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
      1913 webster

   3. a stool pigeon, or decoy bird. u. s.
      1913 webster

   4. naut. a small channel on the side of a vessel, for the
      dead-eyes of the backstays. --totten.
      1913 webster

   5. a bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --j. p. peters.
      1913 webster

   6. a bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a
      footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
      1913 webster

   7. material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom
      for oyster spat to adhere to. local, u.s.
      1913 webster

   stool of a window, or window stool arch., the flat
      piece upon which the window shuts down, and which
      corresponds to the sill of a door; in the united states,
      the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual
      sill upon which the sash descends. this is called a window
      seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.

   stool of repentance, the cuttystool. scot.

   stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others
      within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.
      1913 webster
see also:
stand fauteuil stool of a window window stool stool of repentance stool pigeon 

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Donnybrook, The Stool of Repentance
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Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Stool of Repentance.
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Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Stool of Repentance.
...Stool of Repentance..  . A low stool placed in front of the pulpit in ... Colonel Knox … tried to take advantage of a merely formal proceeding ... ..
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The Stool of Repentance for Mandolin : tab, discography and bibliography
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Stool of repentance - jig
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The Stool of Repentance Tab Tab
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Stool of repentance
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