Stook vs Capsheaf - What's the difference?
stook | capsheaf |
A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
* 1958 , (Iris Murdoch), The Bell :
As nouns the difference between stook and capsheaf
is that stook is a pile or bundle, especially of straw while capsheaf is the top sheaf of a stook of wheat etc.As a verb stook
is to make stooks.stook
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.