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stool
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stool
1. a rootstock or base of a plant, usually a woody plant, from which shoots, etc., are produced
2. a cluster of shoots growing from such a base
3. Chiefly US a decoy used in hunting
4. waste matter evacuated from the bowels
5. (in W Africa, esp Ghana) a chief's throne

packing piece, stool
A block which is used to raise one or more members above others.

stool
1. The flat piece upon which a window shuts down, corresponding to the sill of a door.
2. A narrow shelf fitted across the lower part of the inside of a window opening; butts against the sill.
4. Same as packing piece.
5. A framed support.


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Brutal Legend flicks between open world exploration and real-time strategy and, as a result, finds itself falling between two stools.
Yet with his scientific mind probing evolution at the same time as his daughter's illness tries to draw him closer to God, Darwin is in danger of falling between two stools if he can't see the difference between religion and faith.
It's difficult to know what to make of it all, at hough I wonder whether the makers ruptured themselves falling between two stools - the glossy, glitzy, "It'll-be-a-talk-of-the-nation drama" stool and the so-bad-and-so-laughable-it's-good stool.
 
 
 
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