rocking stool

noun

A rocking chair.

Meanings

nounrocking stool (plural rocking stools)

plural rocking stools

  1. A rocking chair.

    He continued to stare out the window, accompanied by Johnny's groans and the rhythmic squeaking of the rocking stool.

    1990, Robert Upton, A killing in real estate: an Amos McGuffin mystery, →ISBN, page 155
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    The Garda van was parked in the yard, and the two young Gards were struggling to get the rocking-stool out of the back.

    2016, L.E. Hartley, The Broken Mirror, →ISBN, page 273
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rocking, stool.

Origin

  1. GermanSchaukelstuhl
  2. Englishrocking stool

A calque of German Schaukelstuhl.

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Rhymes & wordplay

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