milking stool

American  

noun

1. a low, usually three-legged stool with a flat seat in the shape of a half circle, used by a person when milking a cow.

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milking stool British  

noun

1. a low three-legged stool

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Etymology

Origin of milking stool

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

At his feet, a walnut milking stool, which he had built himself.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2022

Made in England out of domestic sycamore, the chair is, in formal terms, the offspring of a milking stool and a garden implement, with structural metalwork detailed in brass.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2010

Spence likes to illustrate his arguments with graphic props, such as an old milking stool whose legs he removes, one by one, to show how his opponent's case collapses without certain supports.

From Time Magazine Archive

I got my fly swah, pulled a milking stool next to Old Flapjack, and waited.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Lots of times Mama came out there to the barn shed and sat on the milking stool just to watch us.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns