campstool

[ kamp-stool ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of campstool¹

First recorded in 1855–60; camp ¹ + stool

Example Sentences

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

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Monsieur Coligny stepped slowly towards the table, drew a campstool near, and sat down upon it.

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

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Major Kosuth, from a campstool a few yards behind his friend, watched with somewhat languid interest.

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He sat silently on a campstool below the knoll, with head bowed and elbows on his knees.

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