Sentence:  For example , when the film is only four minutes old , Neitzbohr refers to a small , Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '' , and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once <WSD>used</WSD> by an epileptic governess whose name , of course , was Doris ( the English equivalent , when passed through middle Gaelic derivations , of Wilhelmina ) . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose