paddock-stool

plural paddock-stools

1. ScotlandA toadstool.

   I asked an old woman in the fields this morning, pointing to a cluster of what we in the north-east corner call paddock-stools, and sometimes fairy-stools.

   1911, Joseph Campbell, Mearing Stones: Leaves from My Note-book on Tramp in Donegal

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   The toad was popularly thought to impersonate the devil; and the toad-stool, pixie stool, or paddock stool was believed to spring from the devil's droppings.

   1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 373

   Sometimes, when Jack happened to be in a humorous frame, he would seat himself at the bottom of the sea on one of the brain-corals, as if he were seated on a large paddock-stool, and then make faces at me, in order, if possible, to make me laugh under water.

   2010, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, page 46