stook

American  

[stook, stook] / stʊk, stuk /

noun

1. shock.

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verb (used with object)

1. shock.

verb (used without object)

1. to stack sheaves of grain; form a pile of straw.

stook British  

/ stuːk /

noun

1. a number of sheaves set upright in a field to dry with their heads together

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verb

1. (tr) to set up (sheaves) in stooks

Other Word Forms

• stooker
  noun

Etymology

Origin of stook

1400–50; late Middle English stouk, Old English stūc heap; cognate with Middle Low German stūke, German Stauche; akin to stock

Example Sentences

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stook

The 67 net yards passing were the fewest in an opener in the past 30 years — a mark that stook only a few hours.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

He waited for her, he fumbled at the stook.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Pine and balsam boughs, with the wood end pointing out like sheaves in a stook, the foliage converging to a soft centre, form the trapper's bed.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

I have reserved a stook of bunches of blackberries by inserting their stems in water, grape-fashion, for a succession of food for bait.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

She set down her sheaves to make a new stook.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)