campstool

[ kamp-stool ]

noun
  1. a lightweight folding stool, especially for use in camping.

Origin of campstool

1
First recorded in 1855–60; camp1 + stool

Words Nearby campstool

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How to use campstool in a sentence

  • It made him stagger, and, snatching up the heavy campstool on which he had been sitting, Stanton struck Max with it on the head.

    A Soldier of the Legion | C. N. Williamson
  • Monsieur Coligny stepped slowly towards the table, drew a campstool near, and sat down upon it.

  • "Some of us had better go out there," hinted Lieutenant Prescott, rising from the campstool that he had brought out from his tent.

    Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants | H. Irving Hancock
  • Major Kosuth, from a campstool a few yards behind his friend, watched with somewhat languid interest.

    Peter Ruff and the Double Four | E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • He sat silently on a campstool below the knoll, with head bowed and elbows on his knees.

    War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy