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The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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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.
Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
(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.
As a letter x
is the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x
is voiceless velar fricative.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.As a verb stool is
(agriculture) to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.x
Translingual
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Letter
See also
(Latn-script)Etymology 2
Possibly from skull and crossbonesDerived terms
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.Noun
(en noun)- (Totten)