stoor

British  

/ stuːr /

noun

1. a variant of stour

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stoor

I looked behind us, and only two seemed to be in the saddle—James Gray of Chryston and Michael Cameron, who had both promised to ding the stoor that day out of his Majesty's red-clouts.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Each bristl’d hair stood like a stake, When wi’ an eldritch, stoor quaick—quaick— Amang the springs, Awa ye squatter’d, like a drake, On whistling wings.

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 Burns, Robert

O, there’s such a stoor, Mrs. Newberry and Mr. Stockdale! 

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

Bet wor a stirrin, strappin lass,    Shoo lived near Woodus Moor;— An varry keen shoo wor for brass,    Tho little wor her stoor.

From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John

The cudgel in my nieve did shake, Each bristl'd hair stood like a stake, When wi' an eldritch, stoor quaick—quack—                    Amang the springs, Awa ye squatter'd, like a drake,                    On whistling wings.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James