joint stool
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of joint stool
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
Example Sentences
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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 Benjamin Franklin
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
I had placed myself in my elbow-chair at the upper end of my great parlour, having ordered Charles Lillie to take his place upon a joint stool, with a writing-desk before him.
From Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Sir Richard Steele
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
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
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