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

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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

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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

While at the stook the shearers cow’r To shun the bitter blaudin’ show’r, Or in gulravage rinnin’ scow’r To pass the time, To you I dedicate the hour In idle rhyme.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Mr Cupples walked aside with Thomas, and they seated themselves on two golden sheaves at the foot of a stook.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald

If the season is late, as is usual with us, then mid-September sees the corn still standing in stook.

From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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 Montagu Browne

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