STOOL

The root of a timber tree, which throws up shoots. Coppice wood consists chiefly of the shoots sent up by the roots of stools of trees or shrubs which have been cut over by the surface. In general all Dicotyledonous trees are endowed by nature with the property of sending up shoots from the stump or stools; but this is not the case with most of the Gymnosperms or Coniferous trees. A wood of pines or firs, therefore, when once cut down, can never be renewed, except by seeds. [s. 1188]