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Stool vs Dung - What's the difference?

stool | dung |

As verbs the difference between stool and dung

is that stool is (agriculture) to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers while dung is to use, employ.

As a noun stool

is a seat for one person without a back or armrest or stool can be a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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 ----

    dung

    English

    (wikipedia dung)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), from (etyl).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
  • * 1605 , , act III, scene iv, line 129
    • Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool
  • * 1611 , Authorized King James Version , Malachi 2:3
    • Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung' upon your faces, even the ' dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 496
    • The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.
  • (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
    • Derived terms
    * dung beetle * dung fly * dung fork * dunghill * dungy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fertilize with dung.
    • (Dryden)
  • (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  • To void excrement.

    • Etymology 2

    See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)

    • Etymology 3

    unknown

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
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