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

They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool.

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin

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 Lamb, Charles

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 Lamb, Charles

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 Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary