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antler: antler: [14] English acquired antler via Anglo- Norman auntelere from Old French antoillier (modern French has andouiller). Its previous history is not altogether clear; it has been speculated that it comes originally from Latin *anteoculāris, which would have meant literally ‘positioned before (ante) the eye (oculus)’, but this derivation is rather dubious.
stool: stool: [OE] Although stools are for sitting on, the word’s etymological meaning is ‘stand’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *stōlaz, which was formed from the base *stō-, *sta- ‘stand’ (source of English stand) using the noun suffix *-l- (in much the same way as saddle was formed from a base meaning ‘sit’). The notion of ‘standing’ no doubt passed into ‘sitting’ via an intermediate generalized ‘be positioned or situated’.

In the 15th century stool came to be applied specifically to a ‘commode’, and this led to its use in the following century for an ‘act of defecating’, and hence for a ‘piece of faeces’. Stoolpigeon [19] originated in American English as a term for a decoy pigeon tied to a stool.
=> stall, stand
DVD: 1995, initialism (acronym) from Digital Video Disc, later changed to Digital Versatile Disc.
Earlier this year, electronics giant Toshiba positioned the first DVD players available in the U.S. as a home entertainment unit (retail price $600). ["Black Enterprise" magazine, June 1997]
position (v.): 1670s, "to assume a position (intransitive), from position (n.). Transitive sense of "to put in a particular position" is recorded from 1817. Related: Positioned; positioning.
pre-position (v.): "to position beforehand," 1946, from pre- + position (v.). Related: Pre-positioned; pre-positioning.
proposition (v.): 1914, from proposition (n.); specifically of sexual favors from 1936. Related: Propositioned; propositioning.
reposition (v.): also re-position, 1859, from re- "again" + position (v.). Related: Repositioned; repositioning.
upper case: "Capital letters as opposed to small letters (lower case)", Referring originally to two type cases positioned on an angled stand, the case containing the capital letters being higher and further away from the compositor.
lower case: "Small letters as opposed to capital letters (upper case)", Referring originally to the lower of two cases of type positioned on an angled stand for use by a compositor (see upper case).