A chamber utensil enclosed in a stool or box.
1410. Wye Acc., in Rogers, Agric. & Prices, III. 546/2. 2 close stoles.
1558. Lanc. Wills, I. 179. On carven close stole ijs vid.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, V. ii. 18. Foh, prethee stand away: a paper from fortunes close-stoole, to giue to a Nobleman.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. xii. (1632), 612. A commodious ajax or easie close-stoole.
1660. Milton, Free Commw., 428. Chamberlains, Ushers, Grooms, even of the Close-stool.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 449.
1869. E. A. Parkes, Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3), 635.
b. attrib.
1629. Inv. Hatfield Priory, in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc., New Ser. III. II. 174. i old leather closestoole chaire.
1640. Witts Recreations (1663), Ep. 469. By His feather with his close-stool-hat did ly.
1699. Garth, Dispens., V. (1700), 63. His high Helmet was a Close-stool pan.
