■ noun
1》 a seat without a back or arms, typically resting on three or four legs or on a single pedestal.
2》 chiefly Medicine a piece of faeces.
3》 a root or stump of a tree or plant from which shoots spring.
4》 US a decoy bird in hunting.
■ verb throw up shoots from the root.
↘cut back (a plant) to or near ground level to induce new growth.
Phrases
fall between two ~s Brit. fail to be or take either of two satisfactory alternatives.
Origin
OE, of Gmc origin; related to stand .