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  • verb Present participle of stook.

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Examples

  • We were stooking early hay when the soldiers came again.

    Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

  • No, that was the wrong memory leading him up the wrong cul-de-sac — it was the school harvest camp he wanted, the endless boring stooking of the sheaves in the National Interest.

    War Game Price, Anthony 1976

  • They had stopped stooking as the binder had come to the final cut in the centre of the field, fanning out in readiness for the rabbits trapped in the last of the standing wheat to make their break — and in the mad exhilarating chase he had driven one big buck right back into the cutting blades —

    War Game Price, Anthony 1976

  • But no wind coming, he sought some other agency for these gusts, and discovered it in a wheat-field where was a young fellow stooking sheaves.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • But no wind coming, he sought some other agency for these gusts, and discovered it in a wheat-field where was a young fellow stooking sheaves.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

  • But no wind coming, he sought some other agency for these gusts, and discovered it in a wheat-field where was a young fellow stooking sheaves.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

  • "Ask Tom," he said, nodding his head toward his son who was stooking the grain a little distance away.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • "Ask Tom," he said, nodding his head toward his son who was stooking the grain a little distance away.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • And as for pleasure, there was pleasure in listening to the birds among the trees, to seeing the stooking of barley, to watching the blue banner of the flax, to walking on frosty roads on great nights of stars ....

    The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908

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