Meaning & use
stook
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a group of sheaves of grain stood upright together in a field to dry before threshing
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Rows of stooks dotted the harvested field at sunset.
The farmhands worked all day to stook the wheat before the rain came.
A note on using this word
Common in British, Irish, and Scottish farming vocabulary, though largely replaced by mechanized harvesting today.
Words with a similar meaning
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Another way to use it
2. verb
to arrange sheaves of grain into stooks
They stooked the barley before the storm rolled in.
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