footstool

«footstool» in Mova's school dictionary: A low stool or small padded seat for resting your feet on… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a footstool, footstools)

meaning for a pupil

1) A low stool or small padded seat for resting your feet on when you sit in a chair. tree →

2) (Bible, figurative) something under someone's feet, showing power: «the earth is my footstool». tree →

sense in the lessons

Everyday furniture word in homes, especially older ones. In stories it often appears by the fire in a cosy room, like the Badger's kitchen. In the Bible God says «heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool», meaning God is greater than the whole world.

examples

• Grandpa rested his feet on the footstool. tree →
• The cat slept on the footstool by the fire. tree →
• She sat on a footstool to read to the little ones. tree →
• Badger pulled up a footstool for Mole. tree →
• The footstool had a velvet top. tree →
• I stood on the footstool to reach the shelf. tree →
• «The earth is my footstool,» says the Bible. tree →
• If you like, you may sit down on it, and be my little queen, and I will sit on the footstool." tree →

note

Compound noun: foot + stool. Plural: footstools. Standing on a footstool to reach high things can be unsafe; ask for help.

In the corpora

• Chee!» The Woman jumps onto a footstool and begs the Cat to eat it.
• Exalt ye the LORD our God, and prostrate yourselves at His footstool; Holy is He.
• The LORD saith unto my lord: 'Sit thou at My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.'
• Let us go into His dwelling-place; let us worship at His footstool.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «footstool» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.