Stooked vs Stooled - What's the difference?
stooked | stooled |
(stook)
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 :
(stool)
A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
A footstool.
Feces; excrement.
(label) A decoy.
A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
Throne.
(label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
(label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
*1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
*:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
As verbs the difference between stooked and stooled
is that stooked is (stook) while stooled is (stool).stooked
English
Verb
(head)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.
Derived terms
* stookerAnagrams
* ----stooled
English
Verb
(head)stool
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.Noun
(en noun)- (Totten)