milking stool


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milking stool

n
(Furniture) a low three-legged stool
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Noun1.milking stool - low three-legged stool with a half round seatmilking stool - low three-legged stool with a half round seat; used to sit on while milking a cow
stool - a simple seat without a back or arms
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milking stool

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Can you imagine a milking stool tilted and bowled violently along the ground?
He remembered he had often cursed the brindle cow and her mates, and had sometimes flung milking stools. But, from his present point of view, there was a halo of happiness about each of their heads, and he would have sacrificed all the brass buttons on the continent to have been enabled to return to them.
Failing that, the trade union leaders supporting Corbyn will finally smell the coffee, wake up and, along with the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, withdraw support, leaving him sitting on a one-legged Momentum milking stool. Kenneth Jarrett, Bournville
Belling case mouths and seating bullets were as easy as falling off a milking stool, and before I knew it, I had 20 fresh .458 Lott cartridges to abuse my shoulder with.
Dad would let us smaller children sit on a milking stool and read or just look at the pictures in 'his' Grit paper.
"It's obviously a milking stool, primitive, probably about a century old, but it has only two legs.
It's all dammed clever, the most clever arguably being a three-legged milking stool (pounds 70-pounds 100).
My dad handed me the milking stool and a champagne glass.
He hopped up on the cow's back, but his wife walked beside him, so she could carry their milking stool and pail.
Some stories, like the runaway pineapple and the monster milking stool, really are!