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stook

  [stook, stook] Chiefly British and Canadian.
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–noun
1. shock 2 (def. 1).
–verb (used with object)
2. shock 2 (def. 2).
–verb (used without object)
3. to stack sheaves of grain; form a pile of straw.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME stouk, OE stūc heap; c. MLG stūke, G Stauche; akin to stock

Related forms:
stooker, noun
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Stook

Stook\, n. [Scot. stook, stouk; cf. LG. stuke a heap, bundle, G. stauche a truss, bundle of flax.] (Agric.) A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.

Stook

Stook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Stooking.] (Agric.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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