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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of stook.

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Examples

  • The grain, which had been cut and stooked in the field was gathered up and fed into one end, and out the other, with much shaking and rocking and flying of dust and deafening noises, came the grain clean, stripped of straw and chaff and ready to be milled.

    The Threshing Machine Susan 2007

  • The grain, which had been cut and stooked in the field was gathered up and fed into one end, and out the other, with much shaking and rocking and flying of dust and deafening noises, came the grain clean, stripped of straw and chaff and ready to be milled.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Susan 2007

  • He was blow sudied on the land it stooked like Bothschild reat him bith a willion facterial blagellum!

    Desperate times ask for desperate arguments - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • The sheaves, which are tied by the machine, are stooked in the paddock for ten or fourteen days until dry enough to be carted in and stacked.

    Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

  • A very young fellow he was, turned copper by the sun; and as he stooked he heaved such sighs that for every shock he stooked two tumbled at his feet.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • A very young fellow he was, turned copper by the sun; and as he stooked he heaved such sighs that for every shock he stooked two tumbled at his feet.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

  • A very young fellow he was, turned copper by the sun; and as he stooked he heaved such sighs that for every shock he stooked two tumbled at his feet.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

  • "All done and stooked; if it keeps fine to-morrow, we'll get it all into the barn."

    The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920

  • The oats were all stooked and stood in silvery sheaves, ready for the thrasher; the great stretch of wheat had melted down to a narrow oblong, round which the binders were working.

    Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905

  • The sheaves of corn were stooked in his neighbour's fields.

    Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899

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