stoor

British  

/ stuːr /

noun

1. a variant of stour

---

Example Sentences

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)

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

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

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

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

"What in the name of common sense is the matter with you?" said he, gettin' up, an' shakin' the stoor aff his hat.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.