WikiWord

English

stook

/stʊk/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
  2. (specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century).
  3. To make stooks.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
stook — meaning and etymology | WikiWord