Sitting Stool

Getting back to that other throne, in the early , according to Oxford, the term “stool” took on the sense of “a seat enclosing a chamber utensil; a commode; more explicitly stool of ease”—in other words, a potty chair.According to Dictionary.com, a chair is “a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.” Whereas a stool is defined as “a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back” or “a short, low support on which to stand, step, ...