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stour
[ stoor ]
noun
- British Dialect.
- tumult; confusion.
- a storm.
- British Dialect. blowing dust or a deposit of dust.
- Archaic. armed combat; battle.
- British Dialect. a time of tumult.
Stour
1/ staʊə /
noun
- Also calledGreat Stour a river in S England, in Kent, rising in the Weald and flowing N to the North Sea: separates the Isle of Thanet from the mainland
- any of several smaller rivers in England
stour
2/ staʊə; stuːr /
noun
- turmoil or conflict
- dust; a cloud of dust
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Origin of stour1
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Example Sentences
He landed in the same neighbourhood as before, and advanced 12 miles inland to the river Stour before meeting with the islanders.
I caught a beautiful fish weighing about eight or ten pounds, in the Hampshire Stour.
The artist was never tired of saying that these soft pastoral landscapes in the Stour valley made him a painter.
The spire of Honington is then seen on the left, and Shipston-on-Stour is entered.
But none has more beauty than that which runs southward to Shipston-on-Stour.
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