stour

noun

British Dialect.

tumult; confusion.

a storm.

British Dialect. blowing dust or a deposit of dust.

Archaic. armed combat; battle.

British Dialect. a time of tumult.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French estour battle < Germanic; akin to storm

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stour or (Scot) stoor (staʊə, stuːr)

—n
1.	turmoil or conflict
2.	dust; a cloud of dust

[C14: from Old French estour armed combat, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German sturmstorm]

stoor or (Scot) stoor

—n

[C14: from Old French estour armed combat, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German sturmstorm]

Stour (staʊə)

—n
1.	Also called: Great Stour a river in S England, in Kent, rising in the Weald and flowing N to the North Sea: separates the Isle of Thanet from the mainland
2.	any of several smaller rivers in England

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Word Origin & History

stour

c.1300, "armed conflict, struggle with adversity or pain," from Anglo-Fr. estur, from O.Fr. estour, from P.Gmc. *sturmoz "storm" (see storm). Became obsolete, revived by Spenser and his followers in various senses; also surviving as a Scottish and Northern English word meaning

"a (driving) storm" or "uproar, commotion."

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My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace"

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