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Definition stook

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 *st?kan, from Proto-Germanic *st?kan? (“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”).

Noun

stook (plural stooks)

1. A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
2. (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).

Verb

stook (third-person singular simple present stooks, present participle stooking, simple past and past participle stooked)

1. (intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.

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