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Stork vs Stook - What's the difference?

stork | stook |

As nouns the difference between stork and stook

is that stork is a large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae while stook is a pile or bundle, especially of straw.

As a verb stook is

to make stooks.

stork

English

(Ciconiidae)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.
  • The mythical bringer of babies to familes.

    • Derived terms

    * (black-necked stork) * (giant stork) * (hair-crested stork) * saddle-billed stork * storky

    See also

    * crane * egret * heron

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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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