close-stool
(ˈkləʊsstuːl)
A chamber utensil enclosed in a stool or box.
| 1410 Wye Acc. in Rogers Agric. & Prices III. 546/2, 2 close stoles. 1558 Lanc. Wills I. 179 On carven close stole ijs vi{supd}. 1601 Shakes. All's Well v. ii. 18. 1603 Florio Montaigne iii. xii. (1632) 612 A commodious ajax or easie close-stoole. 1660 Milton Free Commw. 428 Chamberlains, Ushers, Grooms, even of the Close-stool. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 449. 1869 E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 620. |
b. attrib.
| 1629 Inv. Hatfield Priory in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. New Ser. III. ii. 174, i old leather closestoole chaire. 1640 Witts Recreations, By His feather with his close-stool-hat did lye. 1699 Garth Dispens. v. (1700) 68 His high Helmet was a Close-stool pan. |