close-stool
a stool having a seat with a hole, beneath which a chamber pot is placed.
Origin of close-stool
1- Also called necessary stool.
Words Nearby close-stool
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How to use close-stool in a sentence
How is it that the man becomes all at once wise, when Cæsar has made him superintendent of the close stool?
If you allow the occasional use of a close-stool, let it be locked up in the garret that they may not abuse it.
The Academy Keeper | AnonymousThe very lid of the old abominable close-stool is enough to breed a pestilence.
Notes on Nursing | Florence NightingaleThe names Tribnia and Langdon an not mentioned, and the “close stool” and its signification do not occur.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftFor in Spanish, services is a polite word for a close-stool.
Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper | Francisco de Quevedo
British Dictionary definitions for close-stool
/ (ˈkləʊsˌstuːl) /
a wooden stool containing a covered chamber pot
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