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Form a pile of straw
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stook
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Stook \Stook\, n. [Scot. stook, stouk; cf. LG. stuke a heap, bundle, G. stauche a truss, bundle of flax.] (Agric.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
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n. A pile or bundle, especially of straw. vb. (context agriculture English) to make stooks
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stook , also referred to as a shock , is a circular or rounded arrangement of swathes of cut grain stalks placed on the ground in a field. Typically sheaves of grains such as wheat , barley and oats may be 'stooked' so they are ready for threshing . In ...
Usage examples of stook.
It sounds like they sent similar messages all over: Stook, Ballton, Osk, even Sark.
Trinket raced across the field, still holding the severed hand, and plunged into the stook where the other three were hiding.
Trinket and the Green Girl were left standing by the stock in which the White Nun was hidden, while the lamas squatted by another stook about ten or fifteen yards away, jabbering to each other in Tibetan.
He hurled it as far as he could, but it fell short of the stook in which the White Nun was hiding.
With a bit of luck and sufficient smoke to obscure their getaway, they might get the White Nun out of the stook before it caught fire and run with her towards this cave.
He half-dragged her through the far side of the stook to where the Green Girl was waiting.
The second sheaf of burning sorghum landed right at the foot of the stook and soon flames were shooting up from it twenty feet into the air.
Bill Door fielded a stook as it was blown past, and stacked it with the others.
In some areas late straw was stooked to dry, and Anna saw workmen pitching stooks onto the wagons and carting them to great open-sided barns.
A horse limped away, another fell among the wheat stooks, while a third raced riderless toward the west.
A few of the fields were being reaped, one or two were crowded with stooks, while many crops of oats yet waved and rustled in various stages of vanishing green.
In some areas late straw was stooked to dry, and Anna saw workmen pitching stooks onto the wagons and carting them to great open-sided barns.
The saw-like sickles had only lately been put away, and the wheat stood in stooks of eight among the tall stubble of those times.
At night this City of Trees Turns to a tryst of vague and strange And monstrous Majesties, Let loose from some dim underworld to range These terrene vistas till their twilight sets: When, dispossessed of wonderfulness, they stand Beggared and common, plain to all the land For stooks of leaves!