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▪ I. pook, n. local.|pʊk|
Also 9 puck.
[Goes with next: derivation uncertain.]
1. A heap; esp. a roughly thrown up heap of hay, a cock; also, a heap of oats, barley, or other unsheafed produce, not more than 5 feet high, pitched together for carting to the rick.
1718Hearne Rem. II. 80 [The farmer and his men] went up into the common fields..to fetch home two loads of oats, and the land not being yet in cocks or pooks [etc.]. 1853C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe vii, She saw Guy's ready greeting, and their comparison of the forks and rakes, the pooks and cocks of their countries. 1863Morton Cycl. Agric. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Pucks or Pooks (West Eng.), are large heaps, little ricks of hay, corn, &c. 1868J. T. Tregellas Cornish Tales 20 O'er shoading-heaps and pooks of turves. 1905Westm. Gaz. 8 July 3/1 The hay was dry and ‘up in pook’.
2. A thin tall stack of corn in the sheaf, in shape a steep cone, 9 or 10 feet high, built up temporarily in the harvest-field in wet seasons, for drying the corn before it is carried to the main rick. So generally in s.w., but in central Dorset called more definitely a ‘wind-mow’. (T. Hardy.)
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 211 In making the wheat-pooks in Wiltshire, the sheaves are set [etc.]. Ibid., In a pook may be put a load or two. 1766Complete Farmer s.v. Harvest, In their wheat-pooks..in Wiltshire, the sheaves are set in a circle, with their ears uppermost, and another circle of sheaves is placed upon that, and so on, contracting each round, till the pile ends in a point, upon which a sheaf opened, and turned with the ears downward, is placed, like the shackle of a hive... A load, or two loads, may be thus put into a pook, which is a very good way to secure corn against rain. 1829Knapp Jrnl. Nat. 28 Saving our crops in bad and catching seasons, by securing the hay in windcocks, and wheat in pooks.
▪ II. pook, v.1 local.|pʊk|
[Goes with prec.]
trans. To heap up; esp. to put up (newly mown hay or unsheafed corn) in cocks or pooks (pook n. 1).
1587Mirr. Mag., Bladud xv, Beneath on earth pompe, pelfe and prayse they pooke. 1627MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For gatherng of viij busshells of apples & for pookeing. 1718Hearne Rem. II. 81 The master and the other servant were pooking in part of the land. 1813T. Davis Agric. Wilts. Gloss. s.v. Cocked, Barley and oats are always pooked or cocked, seldom carried from the swath... Hay is pooked, cocked, first in foot-cocks, and when dry in hay-cocks. 1901Times 19 Aug. 11/1 Experience shows..that where barley is pooked, as it often is in the south, it takes less harm from heavy rain and dries much sooner than where it is sheafed.
b. To put up (corn) in pooks (pook n. 2).
a1600‘A Wiltshire Rent Roll, temp. Q. Eliz.’ in N. & Q. 3rd Ser. VII. 277/1 The tenant to cut down, sheafe, pooke, and rake the said thirdes and tenths [of wheat and barley].
Hence ˈpooking vbl. n.; also attrib. in pooking-fork (see quot. 1893); also ˈpooker.
1635Wilts. Rec. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) Varr. Collect. (1901) I. 169 Men labourers in haymaking, pookeing, or gripping of Lent corne shall not take by the day..of wages above vd. 1794T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 90 The price is seldom higher than eighteen-pence per acre for mowing, and one shilling for pooking, etc. 1893Wilts. Gloss., Pooker, a woman employed in pooking. Pooking-fork, the large prong, with a cross handle, for pushing along in front of the pookers, to make up the hay into pooks. 1894Times 14 Aug. 15/1 The relative merits of pooking and sheafing in the work of barley-harvesting are sure to present themselves for consideration... The barley lies strewn over the entire surface, to be occasionally turned with the pooking fork till the crop is ready for stacking.
▪ III. pook, v.2 Sc.|puːk|
Forms: (7 puik), 8–9 pouk, 9 pook.
[Origin unascertained.]
trans. To pluck, pull, pick, or pinch with the thumb and finger: e.g. in plucking a fowl, picking the stalks off fruit, and the like. Also fig.
1633Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Misc. 154 The said Catrein cam in to the said Barbarayis house to puik sum bair. 1785Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xiv, The weans haud out their fingers laughin And pouk my hips. a1810in Cromek Rem. Nithsdale Song 74 I'll clip, quo' she, yere lang gray wing, An' pouk yere rosie kame. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. III. 205 Pook a craw with us. 1823Galt Entail lii, Pooking and rooking me, his mother, o' my ain lawful jointure. 1894Crockett Raiders 274 Your leddyship will hae to come and pook the chucky.
Hence pooked |puːkt|, Sc. pookit |ˈpuːkɪt| ppl. a.
1818S. E. Ferrier Marriage xxxiv, They hadnae thae pooket-like taps ye hae noo. 1824― Inher. lxxxiv, It [the name] 's rather short and pookit. 1894Hunter J. Inwick ii. 20 He's a puir, poukit-like cratur. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags lv, I had not the spirit of a pooked hen. |