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stook

(stuːk)
n
(Agriculture) a number of sheaves set upright in a field to dry with their heads together
vb
(Agriculture) (tr) to set up (sheaves) in stooks
[C15: variant of stouk, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German stūke, Old High German stūhha sleeve]
ˈstooker 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.
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stook


Past participle: stooked
Gerund: stooking

Imperative
stook
stook
Present
I stook
you stook
he/she/it stooks
we stook
you stook
they stook
Preterite
I stooked
you stooked
he/she/it stooked
we stooked
you stooked
they stooked
Present Continuous
I am stooking
you are stooking
he/she/it is stooking
we are stooking
you are stooking
they are stooking
Present Perfect
I have stooked
you have stooked
he/she/it has stooked
we have stooked
you have stooked
they have stooked
Past Continuous
I was stooking
you were stooking
he/she/it was stooking
we were stooking
you were stooking
they were stooking
Past Perfect
I had stooked
you had stooked
he/she/it had stooked
we had stooked
you had stooked
they had stooked
Future
I will stook
you will stook
he/she/it will stook
we will stook
you will stook
they will stook
Future Perfect
I will have stooked
you will have stooked
he/she/it will have stooked
we will have stooked
you will have stooked
they will have stooked
Future Continuous
I will be stooking
you will be stooking
he/she/it will be stooking
we will be stooking
you will be stooking
they will be stooking
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been stooking
you have been stooking
he/she/it has been stooking
we have been stooking
you have been stooking
they have been stooking
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been stooking
you will have been stooking
he/she/it will have been stooking
we will have been stooking
you will have been stooking
they will have been stooking
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been stooking
you had been stooking
he/she/it had been stooking
we had been stooking
you had been stooking
they had been stooking
Conditional
I would stook
you would stook
he/she/it would stook
we would stook
you would stook
they would stook
Past Conditional
I would have stooked
you would have stooked
he/she/it would have stooked
we would have stooked
you would have stooked
they would have stooked
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Translations

stook

[stuːk]
A. Ntresnal m, garbera f
B. VTponer en tresnales
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stook

nHocke f
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References in classic literature ?
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?
The number of pilgrims who do not have vaccination proof of stook at 848 with no cases of suspected infectious diseases among the Iraqi pilgrims recorded.
"Stook" (i.e., "struck") differs from the idea of a sympathetic connection in the violence of its impressing force, and it echoes the imagined power of heavenly bodies with malevolent rays mentioned by Marcellus in 1.1.162-63: "The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike." "Strike" in this sense exists on the continuum of formative pressures, and falls just short of "blast," which could also be used to describe the effect of rays emitted by a planet.
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Some of the other activities the girls at Saint Joseph's were required to do were to make clothing for the boys and the Brothers; pick olives, grapes and fruit when in season; stook the hay (after harvesting); and make soap.
Embedded in the inviting wall are iconic images from our past, as obvious as a large York boat and church spire, as subtle as the 1817 treaty map, fur traps and a stook of grain.
Meanwhile, Augustus Adams and Philo Scyla from Elgin, Illinois, had received a patent in 1853 for a machine that required a man with a hand rake to sweep each gavel from the platform onto one of two platforms where other men (also riding on the machine) tied them into sheaves before placing the sheaves into a bin that could be manually tripped when enough had accumulated for a shock (or stook).
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