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campstool

[ kamp-stool ]

/ ˈkæmpˌstul /

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noun

a lightweight folding stool, especially for use in camping.

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Origin of campstool

First recorded in 1855–60; camp¹ + stool

Words nearby campstool

campshed, camp shirt, campshot, campsite, Camp Springs, campstool, camp stove, camptonite, “Camptown Races”, campus, campus university

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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.
The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer|Eugne Sue
"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