joint stool

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of joint stool

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

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joint stool

A table, or a joint stool, in his conception, rises into a dignity equivalent to Cassiopeia's chair.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

He pointed to his clerk's seat—a joint stool somewhat like a camp-chair, but made of heavy oaken braces and with a seat of hog-skin—and bade Myles be seated.

From Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

I always fear that I shall some day break out with the speech of King Lear's fool: 'Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint stool.''

From Stray Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Josiah then has a word to say about his great-grandfather, the Franklin who kept his Bible under a joint stool during the reign of Bloody Mary, and his grandfather.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

And by that time the archers were coming in, when all was over; and Long Robin must needs snatch up a joint stool and have a stroke at the Moor's head.

From The Prince and the Page; a story of the last crusade by Charlotte Mary Yonge