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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.
Translations
stook [stuːk]
A. N → tresnal m, garbera f
B. VT → poner en tresnales
stook
n → Hocke f
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Black grouse bred in the woodland on one side of the house, and at the right time of the year I could see them feeding on the stooks on another side of the house.
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