campstool

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camp·stool

(kămp′sto͞ol′)

A light folding stool.

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campstool

a variant of camping stool

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camp•stool

(ˈkæmpˌstul)

n.

a lightweight folding stool, usu. with a canvas seat.

[1855–60]

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campstool - a folding stool

stool - a simple seat without a back or arms

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He sat silently on a campstool below the knoll, with head bowed and elbows on his knees.

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Santos shrugged a shoulder towards the captain as he opened a campstool, drew up his trousers, and seated himself with much deliberation at the foot of my mattress.

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I pointed to the recessed part where the little campstool awaited him and laid my finger on my lips.

At others I would find him on the campstool, sitting in his gray sleeping suit and with his cropped dark hair like a patient, unmoved convict.

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We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house.

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By-and-by he says: 'Was that you talking just now in the port alleyway?' 'Yes, sir.' 'With the third engineer?' 'Yes, sir.' He walks off to starboard, and sits under the dodger on a little campstool of his, and for half an hour perhaps he makes no sound, except that I heard him sneeze once.

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What fault, if any, do you find with my putting the skates on the young ladies, and carryin' the campstool for them?"

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Dorothy, already in her 70s, is sitting serenely, almost regally, on a campstool, framed by guns and clubs hanging on the belts of two cops ready to take her into custody.

Who says it's a 'filthy, rotten system'?

I'm hunched on my campstool; peering out the windows of the ground blind I've stabbed into a point of willows jutting into a field of freshly cut corn.

Shooting from stands & blinds: shots from above, or at ground level, shouldn't be underestimated

JOURNAL ENTRY--APRIL 15, 2003--"As I sat down on my campstool I knew I would only have time to quickly down an MRE (Meal-Ready-to-Eat) before returning to the chaotic pace of the war.