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.
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- noun A
pile orbundle , especially ofstraw . - verb agriculture to make stooks
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mike stook up from the chair, his legs stiff and knees shaking.
Borrowed Bottle of Bud Erin Zulkoski 2011
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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.
Sex in America: Can The Conversation Change? « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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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.
Archive 2009-03-01 doyle 2009
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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.
Separating the wheat from the chaff doyle 2009
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If he had ever stook a real stand he would have the scars to show for it.
New Negative Hillary Ad In South Carolina Hits Obama For Calling GOP "Party Of Ideas" 2009
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September 24, 2008 at 1:13 am it is wen yer stook in an office awl day!
Dis man - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Kucinich stook up to crooked Cleveland utilities and was payed with endless media smears for his trouble.
Electing a Leader For President; What Leader Traits Do YOU See? 2007
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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…
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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.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
bilby commented on the word stook
Scots - bundle of straw; sheaf.
December 18, 2007
yarb commented on the word stook
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
yarb commented on the word stook
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June 22, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word stook
"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