STOOK

Etymology

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).

Verb

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

(intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.

Anagrams

• Koots, kotos, skoto-, tokos

Source: Wiktionary

Stook, n. Etym: [Scot. stook, stouk; cf. LG. stuke a heap, bundle, G. stauche a truss, bundle of flax.] (Agric.)

Definition: A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.

Stook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooking.] (Agric.)

Definition: To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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