stook

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English stowk, stouke, stouc, from or cognate with Middle Low German stûke (“bundle of grain”), from Middle Low German stûken (“to push, bump, compress”), from Old Saxon *stūkan, from Proto-Germanic *stūkaną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to pound, push, beat”).

Cognate with West Frisian stûkje (“to pile up, stop”), Dutch stuiken (“to bundle, stamp”), German stauchen (“to compress”), Swedish stuka (“to rick, wrench, upset”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to whack, chop”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stʊk/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊk

Noun

stook (plural stooks)

  1. A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
  2. (specifically) A group of six or eight sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent of combine harvesters and powered grain driers (mid 20th century).
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:
      And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
    • 1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell:
      The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.
A stook.
  1. (slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
    • 1866, Temple Bar, volume 16, page 507:
      Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks" (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.

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stook (third-person singular simple present stooks, present participle stooking, simple past and past participle stooked)

  1. (intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.

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stook

  1. inflection of stoken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English stook, from or related to Middle Low German stūke, from Old Saxon *stūkan, from Proto-Germanic *stūkaną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to pound, push, beat”).

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Noun

stook (plural stooks)

  1. sheaf, bundle (of straw)
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