stook
English
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
Noun
stook (plural stooks)
- A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
- (historical, specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century).
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:
Translations
pile or bundle
|
Verb
stook (third-person singular simple present stooks, present participle stooking, simple past and past participle stooked)
- (intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.
Derived terms
Translations
to make stooks
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
stook
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of stoken
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of stoken
Scots
Pronunciation
Noun
stook (plural stooks)
Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle Low German
- English terms derived from Old Saxon
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- en:Agriculture
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Scots terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scots lemmas
- Scots nouns