Crossword clues for stour
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stour \Stour\, a. [See Stoor, a.] Tall; strong; stern. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Stour \Stour\ (stour or st[=oo]r), n. [OF. estour, estor,
tumult, combat, of Teutonic origin. See Storm.]
A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
[Obs.]
--Fairfax. ``That woeful stowre.''
--Spenser.
She that helmed was in starke stours [fierce
conflicts].
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "tumult, armed conflict, struggle with adversity or pain," from Anglo-French estur, Old French estour "a tumult, conflict, assault, shock, battle," from Proto-Germanic *sturmoz "storm" (cognates: Old High German sturm "storm; battle;" see storm (n.)). Became obsolete, revived by Spenser and his followers in various senses; also surviving as a Scottish and Northern English word meaning "a (driving) storm" or "uproar, commotion." Italian stormo also is from Germanic.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 (context now rare outside dialects English) tall; large; stout. 2 (context now rare outside dialects English) strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy. 3 (context now rare outside dialects English) bold; audacious. 4 (context now rare outside dialects English) rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered. 5 (context now rare outside dialects of a voice English) rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh. 6 (context now rare outside dialects of land or cloth English) stiff; inflexible. adv. (context Now chiefly dialectal English) severely; strongly. alt. 1 (context now rare outside dialects English) tall; large; stout. 2 (context now rare outside dialects English) strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy. 3 (context now rare outside dialects English) bold; audacious. 4 (context now rare outside dialects English) rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered. 5 (context now rare outside dialects of a voice English) rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh. 6 (context now rare outside dialects of land or cloth English) stiff; inflexible. Etymology 2
n. 1 A stake. 2 A round of a ladder. 3 A stave in the side of a wagon. 4 A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy. Etymology 3
n. 1 (label en obsolete) An armed battle or conflict. 2 (label en obsolete) A time of struggle or stress. 3 (label en now dialectal) tumult, commotion; confusion. 4 (label en UK dialectal) A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest. v
(alternative form of stoor English)
Wikipedia
Stour may refer to:
- A number of rivers; see River Stour
- HMS Stour, a Royal Navy River-class destroyer purchased in 1909
- Stour-class destroyer, the sub-class of Royal Navy destroyers of which HMS Stour was the lead ship
- Stour (narrowboat), a canalboat at the Black Country Living Museum, England
Stour is an all-wooden motor narrow boat powered by a Bolinder 15 h. p. diesel engine. It was built as a tar tanker in 1937 by Fellows Morton and Clayton at their Uxbridge dockyard for fuel oil carriers Thomas Clayton Ltd of Oldbury.
The hull has oak planked sides, elm bottoms and pine deck with a fully fitted traditional boatman’s cabin. She was one of a large fleet of all wooden boats used by that Company for liquid cargo carrying, the main hold area being fully decked over.
When new it would have carried refined fuels such as gas oil for powering machinery but as it got older it was used for carrying heavier lubricating oil from the fuel distribution plants on the Manchester Ship Canal.
It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, in Dudley, where it is based and can be seen dockside in the Lord Ward’s Canal Arm at the museum.
Stour is on the '' National Historic Ships register.
Usage examples of "stour".
Spitfire through the stour, with a band of Demons about him, slaying as he came.
In which struggle befell the most bloody fighting that was yet seen that day, and the stour of battle so asper and so mortal that it was hard to see how any man should come out from it with life, since not a man of either side would budge an inch but die there in his steps if he might not rather slay the foe before him.
Lord Juss with a great rout of men armed on his great horse with his sword dripping with blood, and the battle sprang up into yet more noise and fury, and great man-slaying befell, and many able men of Witchland fell in that stour and the Demons had almost put them from the bridge-gate.
Here, according to tradition, a woman was murdered by the Danes, who had ascended the Stour and ravaged Shropshire.
Stafford and Wolverhampton to Kidderminster and the South, and that from Halesowen to Bridgenorth, cross each other at Kinver, and a bridge traverses the Stour, near Stourton Castle, once a royal residence, and one that was a favourite with King John.
Telford runs from the Stour at Stewponey, and passes under a low bluff that is dug out into houses still in occupation.
Nor does the river Stour brawl down from mountains, and roll hard pebbles along its bed.
From the extremity of this chain of vaults, it is commonly believed that a passage extends to the river Stour, two miles distant, and animals are reported to have entered the tunnel at the extremity, and to have re-appeared below Kinver Bridge, where there are fissures in the red sandstone from which issue springs of water.
Boduoc, Beric crossed the bridge built by the Romans over the Stour, and entered the city.
The village stood on a knoll rising from swamps, through which a branch of the Stour wound its way sluggishly.
I hear that they spare none, and that the whole land of the Trinobantes, from the Thames to the Stour, has been turned into a waste.
The valley of the Stour is beyond, unaccountable stream, dirty at Blandford, pure at Wimborne--the Stour, sliding out of fat fields, to marry the Avon beneath the tower of Christchurch.
Frome was forced inward towards Dorchester, Stour against Wimborne, Avon towards Salisbury, and over the immense displacement the sun presided, leading it to triumph ere he sank to rest.
Earl of Leicester and his following rode to Manningtree, and took boat down the Stour to Harwich, where the fleet, under Admiral William Borough, was lying.
The village stands near the headwaters of the Colne and Stour, in a rich and beautiful country.