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A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

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  1. n. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
  2. v. i. To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  3. n. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
  4. n. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
  5. n. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
  6. n. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
  7. n. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
  8. n. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
  9. n. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
  10. n. a simple seat without a back or arms
  11. n. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
  12. n. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings