Stroked vs Stooked - What's the difference?
stroked | stooked |
(of a car engine) Having a replacement crankshaft with a longer stroke than normal
(stroke)
(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 :
As verbs the difference between stroked and stooked
is that stroked is (stroke) while stooked is (stook).As an adjective stroked
is (of a car engine) having a replacement crankshaft with a longer stroke than normal.stroked
English
Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* unstrokedVerb
(head)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.