Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shock of corn, consisting, when of full size, of twelve sheaves.
- To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks or shocks.
- To set up grain in stooks.
- n. A shock of Indian corn.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Agric.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
- v. (Agric.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
Etymologies
- From or cognate with Middle Low German stūke. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mike stook up from the chair, his legs stiff and knees shaking.”
“Lots of us old actual workers and new actual workers stook up during Proposition K and outted ourselves so we could beg for our lives ourselves.”
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“If he had ever stook a real stand he would have the scars to show for it.”
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“A little pride crept in as I admired my stook, my connection to the past, smug as an urban Luddite can be.”
“September 24, 2008 at 1:13 am it is wen yer stook in an office awl day!”
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“Kucinich stook up to crooked Cleveland utilities and was payed with endless media smears for his trouble.”
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“Amazing that that IS actually the one thing he has EVER stood up for and stook to it. lordy…two coups in one lifetime…”
“The other big man and the white-headed boy sat and looked off across a little bit of cornfield where an old grey stook of last year's fodder formed a sagging cone at the edge of the woods.”
“At stook and rook, shear and At the dead beast. threave.”
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“So, you know, there is two things to do, you loaded your plane and took it some place and then when you got there you headed for the nearest bar, and talked to whoever was on the next stook you know.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stook’.
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[Open] Infrequentative
Non-frequentative verbs which also have a frequentative form (which you may add to the list “Frequentative”, if you like)
Examples include bob (bobble), busk (bustle), dab (dabble), ho...hove, stut, wag, dab, dart, spouse, sault, prate, swag, visé, cater, nose and 33 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
Tweets
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knitandpurl "In the gutter are stooks of faded flowers in cellophane funnels, together with handwritten condolence cards: the wayside shrine of contemporary folk religion."
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yarb Citation on willowherb. Jun 22, 2008
yarb Now herons call
And wrangle by their pool; and hooting owls
Sail from the wood above pale stooks of oats.
- Siegfried Sassoon, Falling Asleep Mar 18, 2008
bilby Scots - bundle of straw; sheaf. Dec 18, 2007