different between stook vs stoak
stook
English
Etymology
From Middle English stowk, stouke, stouc, from or cognate with Middle Low German stûke (“bundle of grain”), from Middle Low German stûken (“to push, bump, compress”), from Old Saxon *st?kan, from Proto-Germanic *st?kan? (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to pound, push, beat”). Cognate with West Frisian stûkje (“to pile up, stop”), Dutch stuiken (“to bundle, stamp”), German stauchen (“to compress”), Swedish stuka (“to rick, wrench, upset”), Norwegian Nynorsk stauka (“to whack, chop”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?k/
Noun
stook (plural stooks)
- A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
- (historical, specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century).
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:
- And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
- 1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell:
- The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:
Translations
Verb
stook (third-person singular simple present stooks, present participle stooking, simple past and past participle stooked)
- (intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.
Derived terms
- stooker
Translations
Anagrams
- Koots, kotos, skoot, skoto-, tokos
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
stook
- first-person singular present indicative of stoken
- imperative of stoken
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stuk/
Noun
stook (plural stooks)
- sheaf, bundle (of straw)
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stoak
English
Etymology
Compare German stocken.
Verb
stoak (third-person singular simple present stoaks, present participle stoaking, simple past and past participle stoaked)
- (nautical, transitive) To stop; to choke.
- The pump is stoaked.
Anagrams
- Kosta, Kotas, oktas, soakt
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