noun
Meaning 1
A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
stook
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/stʊk/
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rhymes with -ʊk
noun
Meaning 2
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically
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noun
Meaning 3
A handkerchief.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
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verb
Meaning 4
To make stooks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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History
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 *stūkan, from Proto-Germanic *stūkaną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to pound, push, beat”). The modern vocalism is of Northern dialectal origin (for expected stuck; compare duck, puck, and suck). 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”).
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: auma — pile or bundle
- Finnish: nippu — pile or bundle
- Finnish: kuhilas — pile or bundle
- French: meule — pile or bundle
- French: moyette — pile or bundle
- Old French: meulon — pile or bundle
- Galician: camballón — pile or bundle
- German: Docke — pile or bundle
- Greek: θημωνιά (thimoniá) — pile or bundle
- Irish: stuc — pile or bundle
- Italian: covone — pile or bundle
- Italian: bica — pile or bundle
- Kannada: ಅಂಬಾರ (ambāra) — pile or bundle
- Limburgish: miet — pile or bundle
- Lithuanian: guba — pile or bundle
- Macedonian: ракатка (rakatka) — pile or bundle
- Macedonian: крстица (krstica) — pile or bundle
- Middle English: stouke — pile or bundle
- Norman: binnot — pile or bundle
- Old English: hrēac — pile or bundle
- Russian: копна́ (kopná) — pile or bundle
- Russian: скирда́ (skirdá) — pile or bundle
- Scottish Gaelic: adag — pile or bundle
- Spanish: garbera — pile or bundle
- Welsh: cocyn — pile or bundle
- Welsh: stwc — pile or bundle
- Welsh: cogwrn — pile or bundle
- Czech: panák — group of sheaves
- Middle English: stouke — group of sheaves
- Finnish: aumata — to make stooks
- French: moyetter — to make stooks
- French: gerber — to make stooks
- German: docken — to make stooks
- Italian: accovonare — to make stooks
- Italian: abbicare — to make stooks
- Spanish: garbar — to make stooks