Stook

Quick meaning: Stook is a noun meaning A pile or bundle, especially of straw.

Meaning

A pile or bundle, especially of straw.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.
2. (specifically) 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. (slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.

Example Sentences

Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks" (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• stooks
• stooking
• stooked

Synonyms for stook

Depending on context, synonyms include shock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stouk, stuckle, strawstack, stooker, stack, hile.

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