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Stook

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n.1.(Agric.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
v. t.1.(Agric.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
[imp. & p. p. Stooked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooking.]
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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