footstool

• foot stool, foot-stool

foot +‎ stool

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊtˌstuːl/

footstool (plural footstools)

1. A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 183:

     In Christianity, the world is called the footstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.

2. (figurative) Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.

• stepstool