STOUR

Etymology 1

Adjective

stour (comparative more stour, superlative most stour)

(now, rare, outside, dialects) Tall; large; stout.

(now, rare, outside, dialects) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.

(now, rare, outside, dialects) Bold; audacious.

(now, rare, outside, dialects) Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.

(now, rare, outside, dialects, of a voice) Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.

(now, rare, outside, dialects, of land or cloth) Stiff; inflexible.

(obsolete) Resolute; unyielding.

Adverb

stour (comparative more stour, superlative most stour)

(now chiefly dialectal) Severely; strongly.

Etymology 2

Noun

stour (plural stours)

A stake.

A round of a ladder.

A stave in the side of a wagon.

A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.

Etymology 3

Noun

stour (plural stours)

(obsolete) An armed battle or conflict.

(obsolete) A time of struggle or stress.

(now dialectal) Tumult, commotion; confusion.

(UK dialectal, Ulster) A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.

Verb

stour (third-person singular simple present stours, present participle stouring, simple past and past participle stoured)

Alternative form of stoor

Anagrams

• Rusto, Tours, roust, routs, sutor, torus, tours

Proper noun

Stour

A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.

A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.

A river in East Anglia flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.

A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.

A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.

Anagrams

• Rusto, Tours, roust, routs, sutor, torus, tours

Source: Wiktionary


Stour, n. Etym: [OF. estour, estor, tumult, combat, of Teutonic origin. See Storm.]

Definition: A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion. [Obs.] Fairfax. "That woeful stowre." Spenser. She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce conflicts]. Chaucer.

Stour, a. Etym: [See Stoor, a.]

Definition: Tall; strong; stern. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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