noun
stook
Stook (noun) means a heap or bundle of things, often straw.
noun
1
A heap or bundle of things, often straw.
2
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).
"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."
— Iris Murdoch, The Bell (1958)
"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."
— Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair) (1932)
3
A cloth used for wiping the nose or face.
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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”). The modern vocalism is of Northern dialectal origin (for expected stuck; compare duck, puck, and suck). 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”).
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What is the meaning of stook?
"stook" (noun) means a heap or bundle of things, often straw.
What are the different meanings of stook?
"stook" has 3 main meanings: 1. A heap or bundle of things, often straw; 2. 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); 3. A cloth used for wiping the nose or face.
