step stool

1. 1.

   a stool that has one or two steps that fold under the seat

   Broaderstool

Questions about step stool

What does step stool mean?

step stool means "a stool that has one or two steps that fold under the seat".

Is step stool a common word?

step stool is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.