stours

I know not if a St. Ower is to be found in the calendar; if there is, it will, by adding "wijk," or "wych," a district or boundary, be no great stretch of invention to account for a transition from "St. Ower wijch" to _St.rbitch_; or perhaps from a rivulet which empties itself into the Cam at Quy-water, small streams, in some counties, being called "stours."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 333, September 27, 1828 Various

9 And lastly thrown themselves into these heavy stours. stours > straits, distressful circumstances

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser