Let's try again.
The word is faldstool.
PM your daffynitions.

Good news! I don't know this one.
I'll have a definition with you as soon as I think of one.

Isn't that a type of oyster from New Zealand?

I don't know it either, but I'll make up a dandy definition for it.

Between the Bluffing game and the Limerick game, we've kept you busy, Bethree!

Anyone else for the bluffing game this time? The word is faldstool We have eight daffynitions so far-- could use 2 or 3 more.

Please PM a definition from your fictionary by the end of the weekend.

sent one... now if I can just find some rhymes for babylon...

You have mine also.

Wordmatic

okay, I'm in.

LAST CALL!!

We have nearly a dozen entries. I'll publish the ballot at about 10pm EDT.

Does anything rhyme with "faldstool"?
I'm stumped.

Sorry folks my server went out last night.

Please select your choice for the correct definition of faldstool:

1. The portable collapsable seat used by the family of Paddy O'Furniture when celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

2. A D-handled adze.

3. A colonial-days ladder used to pick fruit from high up in trees.

4. Portmanteau term. A specious argument, from Sir John Falstaff and "stool," excrement.

5. A person who has been tricked or deceived into appearing or acting silly or stupid: to make a fool of someone.

6. The desk from which the Litany is read at church service

7. A stool used by C19 photographers to show female subjects' skirts to the best advantage.

8. A type of oyster mushroom

9. A small circular depression found in heathland.

10. To pen livestock in a fallow field as an aid in soil enrichment

11. A tool used by a Falder when falding

There is something radically wrong with this list. I know FOR A FACT that a Faldstool is what French collaborators stand on when their head is put through the nous, and is then kicked out from under them.

This, of course, means they fall into a heath and make a depression, which is then covered with dirt, so I'll pick #9.

Much as I love number 11, I'll go for 5 for no very good reason at all.

My very good reason for picking Number FIVE is that I frequently feel like one.

No doubt Proofreader used a D-handled adze to make the ladders he places the Frenchmen on for having committed the crime of making specious arguments in a swine pen.

For no particular reason I'll take #10

I cannot understand why no-one's chosen #8 but I'm choosing #1.

Now I know what the Beatles were referring to. Number 9.

I don't believe it's any of them. However, on the assumption Bethree has hidden the real answer somewhere, I'll try 3.

Ah, well. I'll choose, out of complete ignorance, #9.

One of the few possibles that hasn't been chosen yet - 6

I'm wavering between 6 and 8, so I'll choose 8 just to even things out.

(My daffynition's missing, BTW, but oh well.)

Wordmatic

it's a folding stool, in church; so I guess the only thing that comes close is no. 6

#1: Jerry Thomas' portable Patty-seat gleaned Stella's ballot.

#2: Valentine nicely "dandled" the adze without being axed. No takers.

#3: Proofreader cherry-picked a vote from Arnie.

#4: Asa took a sample from Shakespeare-- it was negative.

#5. Kalleh made of fool of two someones: Bob Hale and Jerry Thomas. Nice going, Kalleh!

#6. Tsuwm, you are so right, & Myth Jellies too. A faldstool is basically a portable seat/kneeler. I chose to display the second, laconic definition, as the first gave way too much info ("a chair or seat, originally one capable of being folded, used by a bishop or other prelate when officiating in his own church away from his throne or in a church not his own"). Another definition notes that the new king/queen uses a faldstool when saying prayers at coronation.

#7. Can't imagine, in this secular age, why soap-opera scene-shooters shouldn't use faldstools to kneel at the hems of the starlets, Arnie-- guess you're a bit ahead of us.

#8. Surprising, Stella netted only Wordmatic's vote with her oyster mushroom.

#9. Bob Hale, I've been out here on the heaths all week, finding plenty of small, circular depressions-- oops, that was just where Proofreader, Valentine and Kalleh have been quietly banging their heads against the ground for having fallen for that bit of faux geology. THE WINNER

#10. Not to be outdone (well, OK, she WAS outdone), Myth Jellies entertains with a bit of agricultural composting. Asa bought in.

#11. As I remarked to Jerry upon receipt of his highly logical definition:
"My tool faileth," said the falder when falding
The fald with his faldstool, mood scalding.
"Tho I keepeth the tool
Polished bright as a jewel,
The blasted thing seems to be balding!

Wow. Is Myth a woman? I'd always thought Myth was a man. Oh well.

Nice going Myth and Tsuwm! Tsuwm, it's not in your dictionary? I didn't see your dictionary listed in Onelook.

if I added it (and I might), I'd prolly use this def'n from the Medieval Wordbook: A folding stool used as seat or as a lectern for a kneeling bishop.

but, there's often *months of delay between entries in my dictionary and getting updates indexed by OneLook. their database guy (they've hired the original founder) works on an 'as available' basis.

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