Cryptic crossword clue
Sacks brought up to sit on, perhaps 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word STOOL

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What does STOOL mean?

STOOL noun
  1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
  2. A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
  3. A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
  4. Feces, excrement.
  5. A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
  6. A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
  7. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
  8. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
STOOL verb
  1. To produce stool: to defecate.
  2. To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
STOOL noun
  1. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
STOOL verb
  1. To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

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