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"Stool", as applied to human waste, has the same word origin as when applied to a small seat with no back or arms. The word was eventually applied to the early toilet and, by extension, to the waste. In other words, Medieval people first called their toilets "stools", then, to avoid offense, they used their word for toilet to refer to feces.

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