stoop

1. The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
2. The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.

1. A stooping, bent position of the body.

   The old man walked with a stoop.

2. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

1. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

   He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

2. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

   Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

3. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
4. To cause to incline downward; to slant.

   to stoop a cask of liquor

5. To cause to submit; to prostrate.
6. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
7. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
8. To degrade.

noun

A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

noun

A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.