milking stool

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.

milking stool

noun

1. a low three-legged stool

Word History and Origins

Origin of milking stool¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

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

Read more on New York Times

The picture contains endless scenes of Streisand fishing for the audience’s compliments, playing gawky when we can see all along that she’s glam; it is the stuff of Marie Antoinette at the milking stool.

Read more on The Guardian

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

Read more on Literature

The name is derived from a small milking stool he has in his office.

Read more on Forbes

The humble milking stool is exalted as a furniture shape of prototypical purity by hip designers such as Another Country, its proportions seeming to convey some sort of Platonic ideal.

Read more on The Guardian