Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river, about 70 km (45 mi) long, of southeast England emptying into the North Sea in two channels enclosing the Isle of Thanet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See stoor.
  • noun See stoor.
  • noun Tumult; conflict; a warlike encounter; shock of arms; battle.
  • noun A fit; a paroxysm.
  • noun Encounter; time or place of meeting.
  • noun A stake.
  • noun A round of a ladder.
  • noun A stave in the side of a wagon.
  • noun A long pole by which barges are propelled against the stream. Also called poy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. Tall; strong; stern.
  • noun obsolete A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.

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Examples

  • Leaving Shaftesbury, we crossed over one section of the Blackmoor Vale, or what we might describe as the Stour country, for there were many place-names in which the word Stour occurred.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Earlier I had made plans to go down the River Stour from Canterbury to Ramsgate with the other patients, and there, on a little offshore ridge I knew, I would make a bigger boat and sail to London.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • There will be further performances in Bury St Edmonds and London, and then at the Stour festival in June.

    Vivaldi flute concerto discovered Severin Carrell 2010

  • Stour Valley Arts Gallery, to 16 JulSkye SherwinLeo Fitzmaurice collects the posters, flyers and packaging that so ubiquitously plague our consumer environment and transforms them into sculptural amazements.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • She lives in London and the Stour Valley, Essex, England.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

  • I walked past some hawthorn trees, through a car park, over a fence, and there was the River Stour.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • I walked past some hawthorn trees, through a car park, over a fence, and there was the River Stour.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • She lives in London and the Stour Valley, Essex, England.

    The Spy Game by Georgina Harding: Book summary 2010

  • Earlier I had made plans to go down the River Stour from Canterbury to Ramsgate with the other patients, and there, on a little offshore ridge I knew, I would make a bigger boat and sail to London.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • She lives in London and the Stour Valley, Essex, England.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

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