stool

noun

item of furniture consisting of a single seat, for one person, without back or armrests, on a base of either three or four legs, generally distinguished from chairs by lack of arms and a back

Pronunciation: /stuːl/ / /stʉl/

Etymology: From Latin stolo. See stolon.

Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
“The process of layering is well known: it consists in bending a young branch […] into the soil to a certain depth, and elevating the top part of it out of the soil in an upright direction; in time the buried part takes root, and the shoot becomes a perfect plant. The root which produces the young shoots for layering is called the stool. Stools are planted about six feet apart every way in a deep fresh soil. […] Stool. – The root of a tree which has been left in the ground, the produce of another tree, or shoot for saplings, underwood, &c.”
“Soon after harvest, new shoots emerge from axillary buds on the stubble and give rise to the ratoon crop. Initially the young shoots are dependent upon the roots of the previous crop (stool roots) but these are replaced by new shoot roots […].”

Etymology: From Latin stolo. See stolon.

To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
“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.”
“The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage.”