stook
/stʊk/
stook noun: a pile or bundle, especially of straw.
Noun
stook (plural stooks)
- A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
- 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).
- And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16
- The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell
- A handkerchief.
- Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks" (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.1866, Temple Bar, volume 16, page 507
Verb
stook (third-person singular simple present stooks, present participle stooking, simple past and past participle stooked)
- To make stooks.
stook meaning in Tamil and Kannada
stook in Tamil
- கதிர்க் கொத்தடுக்கு
stook in Kannada
- pile or bundle
- ಅಂಬಾರ ambāra
Synonyms of stook
Forms of stook
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stooks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stooks |
| present participle | stooking |
| past participle | stooked |
| past | stooked |
Origin of stook
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”).
Words formed from stook
Words that rhyme with stook
38 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blook
- brooke
- logbook
- jook
- mistook
- overcook
- shook
- sook
- talk like a book
- took
- undercook
- abrook
- betook
- bring to book
- by hook and by crook
- by hook or by crook
- checkbook
- cheque book
- chequebook
- Corner Brook
- forsook
- Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook
- gook
- Hughes Brook
- Knook
- log book
- log-book
- Main Brook
- mook
- overtook
- partook
- quook
- schnook
- shnook
- South Brook
- Steady Brook
- uncrook
- undertook
Questions about stook
- What does stook mean?
- Stook means a pile or bundle, especially of straw.
- What is stook in Tamil?
- Stook in Tamil is கதிர்க் கொத்தடுக்கு. See Stook meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stook?
- Stook can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce stook?
- Stook is pronounced /stʊk/.
- What is the plural of stook?
- The plural of stook is stooks.
Words near stook in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stook (page history and authors); stook (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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