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▪ I. stour, n.1|stur|
Forms: 3–4 stur(e, 4–9 stoure, stowre, 5 store, (6 stourre), 5–8 stowr, 6–9 stower, 8–9 stoor, 4– stour.
[a. AF. estur, OF. estour (N.E. dial. stour), estor, estorn = Pr. estorn-s, It. stormo tumult, conflict, a. Teut. *sturmo-z storm n. The etymological identity of senses 4 and 5 with the other senses is doubtful.]
I.
1. An armed combat or conflict; esp. a contest in battle; a fight. Obs. exc. arch.
a1300Cursor M. 7466 A man o þair gains an of vr, If vrs mai him win in stur [other texts stoure, stour(e)s]. Ibid. 7752–3 Gain saul þai gaf batail strang... In hard strur [read stur] þai samen mett. Ful snaip it was þair stur and snell. c1325Metr. Hom. 23 Bot werdes haht and hey tures Getes thir cite men fra stures. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 730 Lordynges..þat fledde fro þe grete stour. c1386Chaucer Monk's T. 380 She that helmed was in starke stoures [Ellesm. shoures] And wan by force townes stronge and toures. c1400Destr. Troy Prol. 28 Now of Troy forto selle..Of the stoure & þe stryffe when it distroyet was. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. civ. (1869) 113, I am ladi and..constablesse of alle stoures in cheuachyes, ther as baners ben desplayed. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon i. 42 Moche grete and merueyllouse was the stoure, and the bataill soo fyers. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxvi. 26 The quhilk, with mony bludy woundis, in stour, Victoriusly discomfeit the dragoun. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos i, Prooued knights In martial feats and battelous stoure. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xvi. 69 Those braue spirits in all those balefull stowres, That with Duke Robert went against the Pagan powers. 1667J. M'Kenzie in Highland Papers (S.H.S. 1916) II. 22 Both parties met wt a terrible stour fighting handsomlie on both sides. 1803W. S. Rose Amadis 96 Man to man, and horse to horse oppos'd, the stower began. 1808Scott Marm. iv. xxxii, When joins yon host in deadly stowre. 1816― Old Mort. xxxvii, ‘Then ye saw a bonny stour,’ said Cuddie, ‘that sall serve me for fighting a' the days o' my life’. 1846C. G. Prowett Prometheus Bound 21 Whose pointed lances on their foes Bear down the battle's stour. 1904J. Parkinson Lays of Love & War 81 War unto him is his birthright, The stour of the battle his breath.
†b. Phrases. stiff, stith, strong in stour; also rarely good, fast, bold in stour. Obs.
a1300, ? a 1366 [see stiff a. 13]. a1300–1400[see stith a. 6]. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1725) 6 A stiffe knyght in stoure. Ibid. 213 Edward & Edmunde, knyght gode in stoure. a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. lv. 37 Þer nis non so strong in stour,..From þat day forþ,..Of his strengþe he leost a quantite. c1435Torr. Portugal 1655 Welcom, sir knyght, That fast art in stoure. c1460Towneley Myst. xxv. 131 He is..of so mekill myght, And styf in euery stoure. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxvii. 33 The Bruce, that euir was bold in sto[u]r. 1508Ibid. vii. 9 Welcum in stour most strong, incomparable knight. [1857Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 352 The Danes were very stiff in the stour.]
†2. fig.
a. Conflict with death, death-struggle, esp. in hard stour, death-stour, bale-stour (see bale n.1 8). Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 15647 Quen suete o blod vt of him brast, þat sua on erth fell. Quen he was risen vt o þis sture til his felaus come he. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 1838 Þe payn of þe dede..Þat es þe hard stour at þe last ende, When þe saule sal fra þe body wende. Ibid. 5812, I yhelde my saul in þis dede stour Til þe Loverd. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5374 Þai prayed þe confessour To bring þat man oute of þat stour. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 5161 Deith..Quham wysedome may nocht contramand, Nor strenth that stoure may nocht ganestand!
†b. A conflict waged with immaterial weapons; a struggle with pain or adversity. Obs.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 111 Whan þai þole mekill' in stoures, Tene and tray of tormentoures, To sere men þaire sufferynge Is ensample of gude lyuynge. c1460Towneley Myst. xiv. 497 In strong stowre now ar we sted; what may we say? 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 47 Honorious of Rome the empioure, That tyme with seiknes staid wes in ane stour. a1536Songs, Carols etc. (E.E.T.S.) 68 Styfly to stond in euery stowr Agaynst the fende & all his methe. 1585C. Fetherstone tr. Calvin on Acts xiii. 8. 296 The same stoure haue we at this day with a number of brablers. 1686J. Renwick Let. 18 Feb. in Life Biog. Presbyt. (1827) II. 276 The Lord..hath helped you to stand with a poor despised Party in many Stours for his Interest. 1807–10Tannahill Poems (1846) 48 Thus youth and vigour fends itsel'; While dowless eild, in poortith cauld Is lanely left to stand the stoure.
†3. Used by Spenser and his imitators for: Time of turmoil and stress. Obs.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Jan. 51 And eke tenne thousand sithes I blesse the stoure [Glossed by E. K. a fitt], Wherein I sawe so fayre a sight, as shee. Ibid. May 156 When approchen the stormie stowres. 1590― F.Q. i. ii. 7 Then gan she waile and weepe, to see that woefull stowre. Ibid. iii. ii. 6, I haue beene trained vp in warlike stowre. Ibid. iv. ix. 39 But thus turmoild from one to other stowre, I wast my life. 1597Bp. Hall Sat. ii. iii. 35 So haue I seene in a tempestuous stowre, Some breer-bush shewing shelter from the showre. 1620Quarles Feast for Worms Med. ii. D 2 b, God..shield all good men from such stormy stowre. 1642H. More Song of Soul i. i. 53 Wks. (Grosart) 18/53 And shall not he..rise, and in his wrathfull stour..quell the haughty enemy. 1742Shenstone Schoolmistr. xix, All, all but He, the Author of it's Shame,..regret it's ruthful Stour. 1767Mickle Concub. i. xxxi, Now to the Goal they fly—in franticke Stowre. 1811H. Macneill Bygane Times 49 When wives and dochters, without thrift..can mak nae shift To screen themsels frae tempest's stour.
†b. Used by Greene, Lodge, and others, probably by misapprehension of Spenser, for: Occasion, place. Obs.
1583B. Melbancke Philotimus A a iij b, When y⊇ Græcians were in suspence, whether to march on to giue onset of battaile, at the same stoure, drad flakes of lightning fire were darted down from heauen. 1589Lodge Scillaes Metam. A 4 b, Clore she gathered Amaranthus flower, And Nais Aiax blossom in that stowre. 1589Greene Menaphon, Melicertus Ecl. 39 He chose her chinne; and from that happie stowre He neuer stints in glorie to appeare. 1590― Never too Late, Palmer's Verses 41 The birds at euerie stowre Do tempt the heauens with harmonie diuine. 1595Locrine ii. v. 111 For Strumbo the cobler At this same stoure, at this very houre, Lies dead on the ground. 1600Lodge in England's Helicon E 1 b, Oft from her lap at sundry stoures, He leapt, and gathered Sommer flowres.
4. Tumult, uproar; commotion, fuss. Now Sc. and dial.[Perhaps partly a variant of stir n.3; cf. the γ forms of stir v.] c1440Bone Flor. 1659 Sche glyste up wyth the hedeows store, A sorowfull wakenyng had sche thore. 1570Levins Manip. 175/9 A stoore, commotio, turbatio. 1724Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 116, I see he is to take Bishop Burnet in task;..and I am content I have so masterly a writer..some way to stand betwixt me and the stour, so to say. c1730Ramsay Masque 197 Minerva mim, for a' your mortal stoor, Ye shall with billy Bacchus fit the floor. 1833G. N. Brown York Minster Screen 150 (E.D.S. No. 76) An t' bairns all roo'red to see their moother roore, Ah nivver i my life seed sike a stoore. 1879Hardy Wessex Tales (1889) 262 Oh, there's such a stoor, Mrs. Newberry..! The king's excise⁓men can't get the carts ready nohow at all! 1915Sir J. Wilson Lowland Scotch in Lower Strathearn 206 Sic a stoor uboot naything.
b. A storm; esp. a driving storm. Sc. and north.
1827J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. I. 278 The other horse grows obstinate wi' the sharp stour in his face. a1878H. Ainslie Pilgr. Land Burns etc. (1892) 218 Then look, ere midnight's past For a stour frae the nor-wast. 1891Atkinson Moorland Parish 362 It would have been alike impossible to see or read [the burial service] in such a fierce, savage stour; and the sharp, hard sleet and roughened snow were driven against..my neck and face.
II.
5. Flying dust raised by the rapid movement of a person or things, or by the wind; hence a deposit of dust; also dust from material undergoing mechanical treatment. Sc. and north.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 61 Sa began the grete bataill sa vigorous, that the stour strake in the hevin of the crueltee of that mortall bataill. c1470Henry Wallace vii. 579 The strang stour rais, as reik, vpon thaim fast. Ibid. x. 29 The tothir ost mycht nocht no dedis se, For stour at rais. 1513Douglas æneis vii. xi. 57 The dusty pouder vp dryvand wyth a stour. Ibid. ix. ii. 3 The Troianis..A dusty sop vprysand gan do se, Full thik of stour vp thringand in the ayr. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 39 The battellis ioynit so cruellie that they might nocht be sene for the stour and reik of poullder. 1786Burns To Mountain Daisy i, For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. 1808J. Mayne Siller Gun ii. 121 Alang the roads it left out-ower ye Sic clouds o' stour, Ye coudna see yer thumb before ye. 1836Carlyle in Academy Suppl. 17 Sept. (1898) 272/1 The huge smoke and stour of that tumultuous Manchester. 1894Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet 46 Ye couldna see his legs or coat-tails for stour as he gaed roon’. 1905Blackw. Mag. Jan. 120/2 She went down on her knees to blow aside a pile of white peat ‘stour’.
†b. A cloud of spray. Sc. Obs. rare.
1513Douglas æneis iii. vi. 130 The large fludis suppis thrise in ane swelth, And wther quhilis spowtis in the air agane, Drivand the stour to the sternis, as it war rane. 1822H. Ainslie Pilgr. Land of Burns 179 The siller stour That bowses frae the linn.
c. Phrases. (Sc.) like stour: very swiftly or vigorously. to blow, cast, throw stour in one's eyes: fig. (cf. dust n.1 4). to kick up, make, raise a stour: to raise a dust; fig., to make a disturbance or fuss.
a1788Burns ‘O Tibbie, I hae seen the day’ ii, Yestreen I met ye on the moor, Ye spak na, but gaed by like stoure. 1870J. K. Hunter Life Studies Char. 135 Thoo sees I am preachin' awa' here like storr. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 322, I saw our men..drive like stour across the yard and in at the open gate.
1823Galt R. Gilhaize xv, My grandfather being eager to throw stour in his eyes. 1883R. Cleland Inchbracken xviii. 136 Do you tak me for a fule, to think ye're to blaw the stour i' my e'en that gate?
1786Burns Ordination iii, This day the Kirk kicks up a stoure. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 179 Wha raised at Marston such a stour And made the tyrants fear folk? 1896A. Lilburn Borderer xxii. 169 Tschuh, tschuh, tscha, oh confound you and yer brush together..! Kicking up such a stour. 1897W. Beatty Secretar xviii. 154 What gars ye mak sic a stour at sic a time?
†6. to stour: ? to the ground. Obs.—1.
c1557Abp. Parker Ps. lxxx. 13 Why hast thou beat his closure downe..?..The tushy bore..doth route it vp to stoure.
▪ II. stour, stoor, a. and n.2 Obs. exc. Sc.|stur|
Forms: 1 stór, 3–5 stor, (3 Lay. steor), 3–5 store, 4–6 stoore, 5 storre; 3–6 stur, 4–6 sture, 5–9 stoor, 6 stur; 4–6, 9 stoure, 4–9 stour, 4, 6, 7 north. stowre, 6–7 stower; Sc. 6, 8 stuir.
[Apparently two words have been confused: (1) Late OE. stór, a. ON. stór-r (Sw., Da. stor) great. Cf. OFris. stór great, OS. stôri (gl. inclitus); the root is prob. *stō- ablaut-var. of *sta- to stand. (2) ME. stūr, cogn. w. MLG. stûr, MDu. stuur, stûre (med. Flem. stuur; Du. has the derivative stuursch) rough, wild, furious, harsh; it is uncertain whether the affinities are with steer a. or with stir v.
Owing to the uncertainty of the phonetic import of some of the forms, the two words cannot be distinctly separated.]
A. adj.
†1. Of natural agencies: Violent, fierce. Obs.
a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1085, Swa stor þunring & læᵹt wes swa þat hit acwealde maniᵹe men. c1205Lay. 25740 Þer uuen on heo iseȝen a fur þat wes muchel and swiðe stor. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 373 The store windes blew ful lowd. 1460Lybeaus Disc. 1766 A fere stark and store Was lyght. 14..Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 131/256 On a grene hill he sawe a tre, The Savoure of hit was stronge & store.
†b. Of a fight, battle: Fiercely contested. Obs.
c1205Lay. 1709 Þær wes feiht swiðe strong on alche haue hit wes stor þer wes..moni cniht feie. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1725) 72 Þer þe bataile was stoure an abbay wild he haf wrouht.
†c. Of conditions: Causing great pain or hardship, hard, severe, grievous. Obs.
c1205Lay. 7333 Þu [Cæsar] ært icumen of Rome þine word beoð swiðe store of ure londe þu axest ȝeld. a1300Cursor M. 24541 Sa war mi stundes store. c1350Med. MS. in Archæologia XXX. 384 Y⊇ playster..is good..To leyn on place yer styngyng is, It drawyth awey y⊇ smert so stoure.
†d. Of sound: Great in volume, loud. (Cf. 6 b.)
c1440York Myst. xxxi. 242 My lorde it astonys hym, youre steuen is so store. a1489Caxton Blanchardyn 162 As of the stour dynnyng and noyse that their horses made treddyng and wallopyng..vpon the grounde. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxi. 63 Quhen the angell blawis his bugill sture.
e. quasi-adv. Violently, fiercely.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 228 (Camb. MS.) Fram flore in to flore Þe strimes vrneþ store. c1470Rauf Coilȝear 16 The wind blew out of the Eist stiflie and sture. 1885‘S. Mucklebackit’ (J. Lumsden) Rural Rhymes 91 Thou wearie, eastlin' blast Frae ‘Lumsden's Hole’ that stormest stoure!
†2. Great in number, numerous. Obs.
c1205Lay. 3821 He gadere ferde þe wes feondliche stor. c1250Gen. & Ex. 842 On-kumen was cadalamor, king of elam, wið ferding stor. a1300Havelok 2383 Þer he yet on hunting for, With mikel genge, and swiþe stor. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1725) 313 Þe poyntes were so store. a1400–50Wars Alex. 1534 Store starand stanes strekilland all ouire [the garment]. Ibid. 1741 Þou may reȝt lycken Þe store strenthe of oure stoure to sternes of þe heuen.
†3. Great in degree. Obs.
c1205Lay. 349 He was mete-custi þat is monscipe steor. Ibid. 9126 Muchele is & stor þe eiȝe. c1250Owl & Night. 1473 (MS. Cott.) Wundre me þungþ wel starc & stor Hu eni mon [etc.].
†4. Of material things: Great in size, stout, massive, bulky; also rarely great in extent of surface. (In some of the quots. approximating to sense 7.) Obs.
a1300Shires England 28 in O.E. Misc. 146 Ac þis wes hwile þreo bisscop-riche, for-þi her to hereþ .viii store schire, and on half schire. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xix. (Christopher) 339 Quhen þat christofore þis prayere had mad,..His staf, þat was sture & stark, was cled with lewis, & with bark. 13..Adultery 158 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXIX. 421 An huge tre, stark & stoure. c1400Sc. Trojan War (Horstm.) 198 Of Pallas a tempile full stoure. c1450Bk. Curtasye 822 in Babees Book (1868) 326 He..Awoydes þo borde in-to þo flore, Tase away þo trestis þat ben so store. c1470Henry Wallace x. 956 Thai..Brak byggyngs doun quhilk had bene stark and stur. 1513Douglas æneis xi. xi. 45 For in his hand..had he A bustuus speir, percace, baith styth and stuir. 1549Latimer 7th Serm. bef. Edw. VI. A a vj, It was..a greater payne..then when the stower nayles were knocked and driuen throughe hys handes and fete. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 138 For body being a stour unweildsom thing,..it cannot stir without asking another bodies leave to crowd by.
†b. Of length: Great, immoderate, inordinate.
c1400Destr. Troy 3042 Hir nose..Stondyng full streght & not of stor lenght.
5. Of persons or animals: Strong, sturdy, stalwart.
a1310in Wright Lyric P. xxx. 87 Ne is no quene so stark ne stour,..that ded ne shal by-glyde. 1375Barbour Bruce x. 158 He wes a stout carle and a sture. a1400–50Wars Alex. 3937 Þan floȝe þar..of þa foule Backes, Als store & als stalword as þire sedill dowis. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 16413 The quene..rydyng..Opon a stede strong & store. c1450Holland Howlat 500 Was nane so stur in the steid micht stand him a start. 1513Douglas æneis v. viii. 20 The tother of lymmis biggar and cors mair stur is. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) I. 20 His buirlie bodie, that wes bayth strang and stuir. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Porch xx, Constancie knits the bones, and makes us stowre. 1793Carlop Green (1817) 116 Stiff, still, stuir, hard-grown Baillie Brock. 1814Scott Wav. xlii, That grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o' Bradwardine.
Comb.a1400–50Wars Alex. 1702 (Ashm. MS.), Askis þam..Bathe of his statoure & his strenth if he ware store ben [Dublin MS. sture-baned].
†b. of bearing, countenance, speech. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xx. (Blase) 149 Þane sad hym blase [= Blasius] with stur chere: certis, þu art a foule. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 1123 O stronge lady stoore, what dostow? c1400Destr. Troy 3763 Achilles was..a stythe man in stoure, storest of wille. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 87 With stout contenance and sture he stude thame beforne. a1510Douglas K. Hart ii. 395 Go to the King, with sture voce can he say, Speir gif ony office he hes for me. a1529Skelton Agst. Scottes 12 They are so stowre, So frantyke mad. 1530Palsgr. 326/1 Stowre of conversacyon, estourdy. 1560Rolland Seven Sages 68 He was sa stout and sture, Of his lyfe tuk na cure. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. Epist. 11 Such as were most wyld, stowre, feerce..and bent Ageinst good order, were by him perswaded to relent.
†c. of a stroke, pace. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 1193 Bothe batels on bent brusshet togedur; With stithe strokes and store. c1470Henry Wallace iv. 780 Quhen that he was with out, Rycht fast he ȝeide, a stour pais and a stout. c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 27/452 Thow happelie did find Thy fortoune now that from his stricking stuir [sc. the kicking of a horse] So hes eschewit saif vntuitchit suir.
6. Of a person: Stiff, unbending, stubborn; stern, surly. Also of looks, etc.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 11471 Ȝyf þou meke þe to þy prest, Þou mekes þe to Goddes brest; Ȝyf þou be to hym ful stour, Þou doust to God grete dysonour. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 3845 But non of hem thei ones gret, But sette hem doun with semblaunt store. c1447in Invent. Jarrow & Wearmouth (Surtees) 241 Will'm of Hilton..wt hy and stoor countenance entreed yr qweer..wt outyn ony.. reuerence..to y⊇ blessid sacrament. a1500Ratis Raving iii. 367 Na falow the nocht with our gredy, Na with our still men, na our sture. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. i. 110 The Occean, whiche where he cometh by Easte Asie, is called Eous,..and aftre the name of the stoure Scithiane, vpon the Northe Scythicus. 1642J. Rous Diary (Camden) 121 For that he shewed himselfe crosse and stower, he was committed to the Fleet. 1789–90Burns Five Carlins xvii, Says Black Joan frae Crichton Peel, A carline stoor and grim. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxix, A muckle sture fearsome⁓looking wife. 1846Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1852) IV. xxiv. 456 There's some of your stour orthodox folk just over ready to stretch the Bible to square with their catechism.
Comb.1816Scott Old Mort. iv, That dour stour-looking carle.
b. Of a voice: Harsh, rough. (Cf. 1 d.)
1785Burns Addr. to Deil viii, When wi' an eldritch, stoor quaick, quaick, Amang the springs, Away ye squatter'd like a drake. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Stoar, stour, harsh, deep⁓toned. Ibid. II. 294, I tell's him i' a stoar voice, as lang as I'se maister o' this house [etc.]. 1894‘H. Haliburton’ (J. L. Robertson) Furth in Field 9 The farmer..demanded in a stoor voice..‘whether’ [etc.]. 1894R. Reid Poems 46 Nae merle at e'enin' his melody starts..But a corbie's maybe, or some ither as stoor.
7. Coarse in texture, harsh, rough, stiff.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxi. 140 In thase iles..er schepe als mykill as oxen, bot þe woll of þam es grete and sture. c1440Alphabet of Tales 184 And he sett befor þaim sture brede & salte. 1530Palsgr. 326/1 Stoure, rude as course clothe is, gros. Ibid. 630 This rubbynge of your gowne agaynst the wolle wyll make it sture to the syght: ce frotter de vostre robbe contre la layne larudyra quant a la veue. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. 2 The Skin.. in sume one person [is] moore stowre & styffe then in sume other agayne. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 131 A fenny goose, euen as her flesh is blacker, stoorer, vnholsomer, so is her fether for the sa ne cause courser stoorer and rougher. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 195 And eke the skin with bristles stur right griesly he hir gaue. 1691Ray S. & E. Country Words, Sturry, inflexible, sturdy, and stiffe. Stowre is used in the same sense, and spoken of cloth, in opposition to limber. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Stour, stiff, stout... In our use, it seems rarely, if ever, applied to any thing but strong vegetable growth... In Suffolk..it is applied to land which works stiff.
†B. n.2 [Cf. A. 7.] A thick place (in cloth).
14725th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 436/2 [The cloth is to be clear of] rowe, stour, cokell, vagite, grete hole or any other defaute.
Hence † ˈstorlic a., strong, fierce.
c1205Lay. 10647 Þat feht wes swiðe storlic [c 1275 storlich].
▪ III. stour, v. Sc. and north.|stur|
Also stoor.
[f. stour n.1 II.]
1. intr. Of a substance: To rise up in a cloud of dust or powder; to fly. Of snow: To drive.
1788W. H. Marshall Yorksh. II. 356 To Stoor; to rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, fallen lime, &c. 1860Ramsay Remin. v. (1867) 87 In speaking of the dryness of the soil on a road in Lanarkshire, a farmer said, ‘It stoors in an oor’. 1891Atkinson Moorland Parish 360 It was a wild day indeed, the snow stouring in blinding clouds.
2. (See quot.)
1811Willan in Archæologia XVII. 160 Stour, to raise dust, to make a bustle.
Hence ˈstouring ppl. a.
1891Atkinson Moorland Par. (ed. 2) 361 The stouring snow which blew directly into one's face and eyes.
▪ IV. stour
obs. form of store; var. stower n.1 |