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Pew vs Stool - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between pew and stool

is that pew is one of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel while stool is a seat for one person without a back or armrest.

As verbs the difference between pew and stool

is that pew is to furnish with pews while stool is to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

As an interjection pew

is An expression of disgust in response to an unpleasant odor.

As a proper noun Pew

is {{surname|from=Welsh}.

pew

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pewe, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.
    • ''In many churches some pews are reserved for either clerical or liturgical officials such as canons, or for prominent families
  • An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.
  • * 2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers",  [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html]
    • At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, firefighters in dress blues and white gloves escorted families to the pews for a memorial service, led by Mr. Bloomberg, to honor the 343 Fire Department employees killed on 9/11.
  • Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.
    • (Samuel Pepys)
    (Milton)
    Derived terms
    * pew-opener * take a pew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with pews.
    • (Ash)

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) or a truncation of (putrid).

    Alternative forms

    * P U, * peeyoo * phew

    Interjection

    (en interjection)

    • Etymology 3

    Onomatopoetic. English onomatopoeias

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Representative of the sound made by the of a machine gun.

    • Anagrams

    *

    References

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    stool

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
  • A footstool.
  • Feces; excrement.
  • (label) A decoy.
  • A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
  • Throne.
  • (label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
  • (label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
    • (Totten)
  • Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    {{der3, footstool , stool pigeon , stoolie , window stool}}

    See also

    * chair * seat

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) stolo. See stolon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • *1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
  • *:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.

    • Anagrams

    * loots * tools ----