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stook

(stuːk)
n
(Agriculture) a number of sheaves set upright in a field to dry with their heads together
vb
(Agriculture) (tr) to set up (sheaves) in stooks
[C15: variant of stouk, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German stūke, Old High German stūhha sleeve]
ˈstooker n
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Stook

 a heap or bundle; a truss of flax or of sheaves of grain, 1530. See also cock.
Examples: stook of corn, 1530; of flax; of grain, 1530; of hay, 1600; of leaves, 1892; of rocks, 1865; of straw, 1571; of good thatch, 1876.
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stook


Past participle: stooked
Gerund: stooking

Imperative
stook
stook
Present
I stook
you stook
he/she/it stooks
we stook
you stook
they stook
Preterite
I stooked
you stooked
he/she/it stooked
we stooked
you stooked
they stooked
Present Continuous
I am stooking
you are stooking
he/she/it is stooking
we are stooking
you are stooking
they are stooking
Present Perfect
I have stooked
you have stooked
he/she/it has stooked
we have stooked
you have stooked
they have stooked
Past Continuous
I was stooking
you were stooking
he/she/it was stooking
we were stooking
you were stooking
they were stooking
Past Perfect
I had stooked
you had stooked
he/she/it had stooked
we had stooked
you had stooked
they had stooked
Future
I will stook
you will stook
he/she/it will stook
we will stook
you will stook
they will stook
Future Perfect
I will have stooked
you will have stooked
he/she/it will have stooked
we will have stooked
you will have stooked
they will have stooked
Future Continuous
I will be stooking
you will be stooking
he/she/it will be stooking
we will be stooking
you will be stooking
they will be stooking
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been stooking
you have been stooking
he/she/it has been stooking
we have been stooking
you have been stooking
they have been stooking
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been stooking
you will have been stooking
he/she/it will have been stooking
we will have been stooking
you will have been stooking
they will have been stooking
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been stooking
you had been stooking
he/she/it had been stooking
we had been stooking
you had been stooking
they had been stooking
Conditional
I would stook
you would stook
he/she/it would stook
we would stook
you would stook
they would stook
Past Conditional
I would have stooked
you would have stooked
he/she/it would have stooked
we would have stooked
you would have stooked
they would have stooked
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Translations

stook

[stuːk]
A. Ntresnal m, garbera f
B. VTponer en tresnales
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stook

nHocke f
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References in classic literature ?
When I had read it, I stook looking at the Professor, and after a pause asked him, "In God's name, what does it all mean?
By harvest time, the stooks were three feet high and the ears fine and fat.
Oats for the 'rushes' are sown in March and harvested in September, put into stooks and dried naturally to preserve the golden colour.
Ddaru fy ngwr harrow y caeau Cromlech a wedyn dreifio ar hyd a ffordd i Bwlch, i Bant y Saer, Bwlch Yr oeddent yn lladd y gwair, troi efo 'peicel' (fforc) a wedyn gwneud 'stooks'.
Always eager to learn, Dorothy enjoyed her time on local farms learning to gather crops, make hay stooks and even milk cows.
The miles of waving grain seemed to stretch into infinity...But most of all do I see the wheat, rippling like golden waves in the early autumn wind or standing in regiment-like stooks waiting the coming of the threshing season."
With four horses attached these bundle wagons drive out to the field, line up beside the sheaf loader, and away goes the double outfits, picking up whole stooks and elevating them into the rack as fast as the horses can walk.
Words like "mate," "chook,"" spruikers," "quid," "jodhpurs," and "stooks," authenticate the language.
Whereas in Hopkins's earlier inscapes, human agency was in some measure implied or indexed--in the "ooze of oil /Crushed" or the "the stooks" that "rise / Around" ("God's Grandeur," 11.
I sure want to see her shaking!" Willard plans to find a rubber-tire wagon to mount it on and then tackle the grain "stooks" (shocks, in the U.S.).
She walked amongst the 'famine ridges' and across blanket (17) peat-bog land peppered with stooks of drying turf beside trench-style cuts.