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Stook vs Stoak - What's the difference?

stook | stoak |

As verbs the difference between stook and stoak

is that stook is (agriculture) to make stooks while stoak is (nautical|transitive) to stop; to choke.

As a noun stook

is a pile or bundle, especially of straw.

stook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 16:
    • 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.
  • * 1958 , (Iris Murdoch), The Bell :
    • 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.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) to make stooks

    • Derived terms

    * stooker

    Anagrams

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    stoak

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) To stop; to choke.
    • The pump is stoaked .
    (Webster 1913)