Stoor vs Stook - What's the difference?
stoor | stook |
To move; stir.
To move actively; keep stirring.
To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
To stir up, as liquor.
To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
To sprinkle.
Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
A gush of water.
Spray.
A sufficient quanity of yeast for brewing.
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 :
As verbs the difference between stoor and stook
is that stoor is to move; stir while stook is to make stooks.As nouns the difference between stoor and stook
is that stoor is stir; bustle; agitation; contention while stook is a pile or bundle, especially of straw.As an adjective stoor
is alternative form of lang=en.stoor
English
Etymology 2
From (etyl) storen, *. See (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
See (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
* (l)Anagrams
* ----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.