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Definition of Campstools
1. campstool [n] - See also: campstool
Lexicographical Neighbors of Campstools
Literary usage of Campstools
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"and I feel that the campstools so addressed are myself in effigy. At last he,
too, crawls, like a wounded rabbit, into the hole in the tree (as it were) ..."
2. The Argosy by Mrs Henry Wood, Henry Wood, Charles William Wood (1889)
"\Ve were almost the only two on board who used campstools. ... We had not; and
one of our campstools invariably disappeared to be brought into requisition ..."
3. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"33 tions the most ordinary form of table is one in which the principle of our
campstools seems to be adopted, the legs crossing each other as in the ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1867)
"Last year five women all sent for my saddle, besides other things—campstools,
umbrellas, beer, &c. The big people are angry with the Indian saint, ..."
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