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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

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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.

Translations

stook [stuːk]

A. N → tresnal m, garbera f

B. VT → poner en tresnales

stook

n → Hocke f