cutty stool

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noun Scot.

a low stool.

(formerly) a seat in churches where offenders against chastity, or other delinquents, received public rebuke.

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Origin of cutty stool

First recorded in 1765–75

Words nearby cutty stool

cut to the quick, cutty, cutty grass, cuttyhunk, Cutty Sark, cutty stool, cutup, cut-up poem, cut-up technique, cut velvet, cutware

How to use cutty stool in a sentence

He noticed her in the crowd while he was sitting on his stool between rounds.
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Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool.
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I try to catch the eye of this third boy, but he plops down onto a stool and avoids my gaze.
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Long wisps fall across her forehead as she sits very straight on her stool, her narrow shoulder blades drawn back elegantly.
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Everman had his last drink and left for the night when a friend grabbed me by the arm, yanking me off my stool.
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Tony's stool was nearer to the bass keys of the piano, while the sofa Lettice lay upon had certainly been drawn up towards him.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
If, now, the patient cough or strain as if at stool, the contents of the stomach will usually be forced out through the tube.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
When bleeding piles are absent, blood-streaks upon such a stool point to carcinoma.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
When the mucus is small in amount and intimately mixed with the stool, the trouble is probably in the small intestine.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
A Gram-positive stool due to cocci is suggestive of intestinal ulceration.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

British Dictionary definitions for cutty stool

cutty stool

noun

(formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister

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