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stote

stote is the alternative form of stoat.

stote is the obsolete form of stoat.

Meaning of stoat

Verb

stoat (third-person singular simple present stoats, present participle stoating, simple past and past participle stoated)

  1. (transitive) To stitch (edges of relatively thick cloth, fur, etc, for example on either side of a join or tear) together in a way that is invisible from the 'front', by sewing part of the way into and then back out of the thickness of the material from the 'back' side (without the thread going all the way through to the 'front' side of the material).
    • to stoat two very ravelled edges1897 August 14, Work: The Illustrated Weekly Journal for Mechanics, volume XIV, number 439, published in collected form

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Forms of stote

Verb
third-person singular presentstotes
present participlestoting
past participlestoted
paststoted
Noun
pluralstotes

Questions about stote

What is stote the alternative form of?
Stote is the alternative form of stoat.

Words near stote in the dictionary

  1. stoss
  2. stoss therapy
  3. Stossel
  4. stosstherapy
  5. stot
  6. stote
  7. stoted
  8. Stoten
  9. stotes
  10. Stotfold
  11. Stothard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stote (page history and authors); stoat (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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