stoor
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Chaucer has His swyn his hors his stoor and his pultreye.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English
I gat the stoor oot o' my e'en braw an' early.
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)
O, there’s such a stoor, Mrs. Newberry and Mr. Stockdale!
From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas
An shoo profiside trubble an care, Wor i' stoor at noa far distant day, An shoo muttered "poor Sal, aw declare, Tha's thrown thisen reight cleean away."
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
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)
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