英语词汇“stool pigeons”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

单词

stool pigeons

释义

stool /stool/

noun

A seat without a back
A low support for the feet or knees
Formerly, a seat used in evacuating the bowels
Hence, defecation
(usu in pl) faeces
A chair, seat of authority or dignity, throne (obsolete)
A stand
A tree or shrub cut back to ground level and allowed to produce new shoots (horticulture)
A stump from which sprouts shoot up
A growth of shoots
The wicket in stoolball
A piece of wood to which a bird is fastened as a decoy in hunting

intransitive verb

ORIGIN: OE stōl; Ger Stuhl; cf Ger stellen to place

stoolie noun see stool pigeon below

stoolˈball noun

An old game resembling cricket

stool pigeon noun

fall between two stools

To lose both possibilities by hesitating between them, or trying for both

stool of repentance

A place, esp in Scottish churches, where delinquents, esp fornicators, were exposed

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