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stook [stuːk] n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a number of sheaves set upright in a field to dry with their heads together vb (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) (tr) to set up (sheaves) in stooks [variant of stouk, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German stūke, Old High German stūhha sleeve] stooker n 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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When I had read it, I stook looking at the Professor, and after a pause asked him, "In God's name, what does it all mean? |
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