Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shock of corn, consisting, when of full size, of twelve sheaves.
  • noun A shock of Indian corn.
  • To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks or shocks.
  • To set up grain in stooks.

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

  • noun (Agric.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
  • transitive verb (Agric.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
  • verb agriculture to make stooks

Etymologies

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From or cognate with Middle Low German stūke.

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  • Scots - bundle of straw; sheaf.

    December 18, 2007

  • Now herons call

    And wrangle by their pool; and hooting owls

    Sail from the wood above pale stooks of oats.

    - Siegfried Sassoon, Falling Asleep

    March 18, 2008

  • Citation on willowherb.

    June 22, 2008

  • "In the gutter are stooks of faded flowers in cellophane funnels, together with handwritten condolence cards: the wayside shrine of contemporary folk religion."

    Psychogeography by Will Self, 21

    October 11, 2010