milking stool

a low, usually three-legged stool with a flat seat in the shape of a half circle, used by a person when milking a cow.

Origin of milking stool

First recorded in 1820–30

I still had the milking-stool in my hand, but the cow no longer troubled me.

They and I |Jerome K. Jerome
But Jim picked up a loose leg of a milking-stool, and the two went at it hammer and tongs.

Robbery Under Arms |Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
One of my daughters sat on the milking-stool and milked away as if she had been born to it.

Dixie After the War |Myrta Lockett Avary
Stooping, he sought for and found the milking-stool, a solid article of sound oak.

The Day of Wrath |Louis Tracy

There was a milking-stool, which is a thing made purposely heavy so that it may not be easily upset.

They and I |Jerome K. Jerome

milking stool

a low three-legged stool