What is the difference between stook and shook?
stook | shook | Synonyms |
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 :
A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
Stook is a synonym of shook.
As nouns the difference between stook and shook
is that stook is a pile or bundle, especially of straw while shook is a set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.As verbs the difference between stook and shook
is that stook is (agriculture) to make stooks while shook is to pack (staves, etc) in a shook.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.