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Stood vs Stook - What's the difference?

stood | stook |

As verbs the difference between stood and stook

is that stood is past tense of stand while stook is to make stooks.

As a noun stook is

a pile or bundle, especially of straw.

stood

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Verb

(head)
  • (stand)
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}

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    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

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