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Definition of Stook
1. n. A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
2. v. t. To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
Definition of Stook
1. Noun. (agriculture) a pile or bundle, especially of straw ¹
2. Verb. (agriculture) to make stooks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stook
1. to stack upright in a field for drying, as bundles of grain [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stook
Literary usage of Stook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Option to purchase new stook. The term "income," in a will directing that the
rents, dividends, increase, and income in a fund composed of corporation stock ..."
2. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"... is used when corn is short in the straw, the stook, when of moderate or ordinary
length. Huz, Uz, we, as well as, us. In very general use. ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1852)
"... hooded Shock or stook. not be neglected, and it will amply repay the extra
labour bestowed upon it. The question of the policy of mowing or shearing ..."
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