joint stool

noun

1. a low wood stool having turned legs with all parts joined by a mortise joint.

Word History and Origins

Origin of joint stool¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Example Sentences

Josiah then has a word to say about his great-grandfather, the Franklin who kept his Bible under a joint stool during the reign of Bloody Mary, and his grandfather.

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They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool.

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They had got an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with Tapes under and within the Frame of a Joint Stool.

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Some repaired our travelling-house, that is to say, mended or patched a great blue linen tent; others cut for us a supply of wooden tent pins; others mended the holes in our copper kettle, and renovated the broken leg of a joint stool; others prepared cords, and put together the thousand and one pieces of a camel’s pack. 

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It took centuries of blockheads to raise a joint stool into a chair; and it required something like a miracle of genius, in the estimate of elder generations, to reveal the possibility of lengthening a chair into a chaise-longue, or a sofa.

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