stooling

Verb (1)

stool (third-person singular simple present stools, present participle stooling, simple past and past participle stooled)

1. To produce stool: to defecate.
   • Infrequent stooling in the first month of life is almost always due to insufficient intake of milk. A baby who is voiding but not stooling or gaining weight may not be receiving enough high fat hindmilk. Stooling frequency will correct itself with additional feeds or making sure the infant receives...1999, Judith Lauwers with Debbie Shinskie, Counseling the Nursing Mother: A Lactation Consultant's Guide, 3rd edition, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 204
2. To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
   • Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size. […] Those [plants] that generate many small...2011, Edward F. Gilman, An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 411

Verb (2)

stool (third-person singular simple present stools, present participle stooling, simple past and past participle stooled)

1. 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...1869, Richard D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, chapter 38

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