joint stool
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of joint stool
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
Example Sentences
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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 Pyle, Howard
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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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
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
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
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