joint stool


noun
  1. a low wood stool having turned legs with all parts joined by a mortise joint.

Origin of joint stool

1
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Words Nearby joint stool

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How to use joint stool in a sentence

  • Here's a joint stool; sit down and quaff out of Lady Macbeth's gilt goblet.

  • A man of business never wants a counter if he can meet with a joint-stool.

    Cecilia, Volume 2 (of 3) | Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)
  • The officious housewife fetched a joint-stool, first clearing it from dust, whilst her husband added a billet to the heap.

  • 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 | Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Sir Oliver groped his way to a joint-stool, and sat down upon it, sick and white.

    The Black Arrow | Robert Louis Stevenson