stookn.1
/stuːk/, /stʊk/, U.S. /stʊk/, /stuk/ 1. attributive.1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 328 The Lint is tied and set up Stook-ways.1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Stookbands, twisted straw ropes for sheaf-binding.
a. = shock n.1 1.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > stook or cock
shockc1325
cocka1398
stook14..
poukera1450
haycockc1470
cop1512
stitch1603
pook1607
grass cock1614
hattock1673
stuckle1682
cocklet1788
coil?a1800
lap-cock1802
shuck1811
button1850
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 725/31 Hec congelima, a scowk [read stowk].
1494 in W. Ross Busby & Neighb. (1883) i. 22 Ilk person haffand ane pleugh—sall pay ane thraif of aits..and ilk half-pleugh a stouk.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 414 His hede is like a stowke, Hurlyd as hoggys.
1530 Bible (Tyndale) Exod. xxii. f. xxxvii Yf fyre breake out and catch in the thornes, so that the stoukes of corne..be consumed therwith.
1586 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 132 Otes, reaped anno 1586, ccxl threves, at v stookes a boll. 28 l. 16 s.
1620 G. Markham Farwell to Husbandry xiii. 103 [They] lay them in stoucks of twenty or of foure and twenty sheaues a piece.
c1730 A. Ramsay Fables xix. 68 They'll start at winlestraes, yet never crook, When Interest bids, to lowp out o'er a stowk.
1785 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 124 While at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 333 Carts in this way will easily carry at once from ten to twenty stooks.
1827 T. Hood Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 182 Thus she stood amid the stooks, Praising God with sweetest looks.
1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 64 The great undulating upland stretches away to the southwards field after field; here waving grain, there rows of ‘stooks’.
1894 Times 23 July 13/1 The prospect which a fortnight ago seemed certain of seeing wheat in stook by the end of the month is rapidly vanishing.
1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village 36 The vicar's man went into the cornfields and placed a bough in every tenth ‘stook’.
1916 Times 4 Aug. 3 The cutting of winter oats is now common in the home counties, and the crops are bulking well in stook.
b. Used for: A pile, mass.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile
heapc725
cockeOE
hill1297
tassc1330
glub1382
mow?1424
bulkc1440
pile1440
pie1526
bing1528
borwen1570
ruck1601
rick1608
wreck1612
congest1625
castle1636
coacervation1650
congestion1664
cop1666
cumble1694
bin1695
toss1695
thurrock1708
rucklea1725
burrow1784
mound1788
wad1805
stook1865
boorach1868
barrow1869
sorites1871
tump1892
fid1926
clamp-
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 327 No furzy hill in the two counties wearing a stook of rocks on its head for hair-pins, could be better fitted [etc.].
1892 W. E. Henley London Voluntaries in Song of Sword i. 41 [The trees] stand Beggared and common, plain to all the land For stooks of leaves.
c. stook of duds n. (see quot. 1904).
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the world > people > person > [noun] > with reference to appearance > specific
stook of duds1834
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who
Court-mantlec1367
Sunday citizen1598
longcoat1603
lettice ruffa1625
silkworma1625
copester1637
short-coat1649
Scotch-sleeve?1706
Evite1713
uniform1786
nude1810
blue-stockinged1818
waistcoateer1825
padder1828
stook of duds1834
bloomer1851
sleeve1851
shirt1860
shirtwaister1900
DJ1926
rat-catcher1928
sweater girl1940
zoot-suiter1942
Edwardian1954
penguin1967
overcoat1969
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 187/1 In Scotland, again, I find them [sc. Dandies] entitled Hallanshakers, or the Stook-of-Duds Sect; any individual communicant is named Stook-of-Duds (that is, Shock of Rags), in allusion, doubtless, to their professional Costume.
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 785/1 Stook-of-duds, a person so wrapped up as to suggest a shock of corn.
2. A bundle of straw. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw
feald?14..
bottlec1405
bunch?a1505
straw wisp?a1513
stook1571
wad1573
botillage1576
windling1645
pottle1730
bolting1784
strike1817
windle1825
wap1828
hay-pack1841
wake1847
plack1871
tibbin1900
1571 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1576, 709/1 3 den. for thre stoukis (sarcinis) of custome stray.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby ‘A stook of straw’, a bound bundle for thatching with.
1901 J. Barlow Ghost-bereft 86 The furze 'ill be thick as a stook of good thatch ivery day of the year.
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iv. vi. 638 You must make it [sc. your hay] into a high cocke with a narrow top..: and although there come no raine, yet it will be good to make these great stoukes [Fr. meulons].
4. Coal Mining. [Perhaps a different word: compare stoop n.1]
a. The portion of a pillar of coal left to support the roof.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > pillar or area of unworked material
forbar?15..
pillar1591
whole1728
stalch1747
post1793
stenting1812
rib1818
stook1826
man-of-war1835
spurn1837
staple1839
barrier1849
shaft pillar1855
barrier-pillar1881
stoop1881
stump1881
1826–30 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 59 They jenkin a' the pillars doon, And efter tyek the stooks away.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 68/2 In the Newcastle pits..blocks or ‘stooks’ of considerable strength are suffered to remain, for the purpose of protecting the colliers from the exfoliation of the roof.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 242 Stook [Northumb. & Durham], a pillar of coal about four yards square, being the last portion of a full-sized pillar to be worked away in board and pillar workings.
1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night 82 The chipped-away legs of the pillars [of coal] are called ‘stooks’.
b. stook and coil, stook and feathers: see quots.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > wedges, etc.
gad1671
plug1747
stook and coil1808
stook and feathers1808
Jack1846
stob1883
1808 R. Bald Gen. View Coal Trade Scotl. 12 (Jam.) The mode then practised in sinking through hard strata, was by a set of tools termed stook and coil, or stook and feathers... Two long slips of iron, named the feathers, were placed down each side of the hole, and betwixt these a long tapering wedge, termed the stook was..driven down.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 242 Stook and feather, a wedge for breaking down coal, worked by hydraulic power, the pressure being applied at the extreme inner end of the drilled hole.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 64 Stook and Coil, or Stook and Feathers, a mode of wedging rocks.
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† stookn.2
/stuːk/, /stʊk/, U.S. /stʊk/, /stuk/ Obsolete slang.
A pocket-handkerchief. Also in combinations, as stook-buzzer n., stook-hauler n. one who steals pocket-handkerchiefs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > cleaning the nose > handkerchief
coverchiefc1305
cloutc1380
muckender1420
napkin1436
handkerchief1530
handkercher1531
mocket1537
wiper1587
nose-cloth1589
pocket handkerchief1645
handcloth1676
mouchoira1685
pocket-clotha1704
wipe1708
volet1789
kerchief1814
snotter1823
lachrymatory1825
nose-rag1840
nose-wiper1840
sweat-rag1843
lachrymary1854
sneezer1857
stook1859
snottinger1864
snot-rag1888
hanky1895
penwiper1902
paper handkerchief1907
nose-wipe1919
snitch-rag1940
paper hankie1959
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > stealer of pocket handkerchiefs
stook-buzzer1859
stook-hauler1859
1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 103 Stook, a pocket-handkerchief. Stook hauler, or buzzer, a thief who takes pocket-handkerchiefs.
1862 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 25 ‘Stook-buzzers’, those who steal handkerchiefs.
1889 E. Sampson Tales of Fancy 18 A dirty face, and a still more dirty ‘stook’.
1893 P. H. Emerson Signor Lippo xiv. 48 All I get is my kip and a clean mill tog, a pair of pollies and a stoock.
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stookv.
/stuːk/, /stʊk/, U.S. /stʊk/, /stuk/ 1. transitive. To set up (sheaves) in stooks. Also with up.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > make into stooks
cock1392
shockc1440
stookc1575
cop1581
pook1587
recock1610
pout1617
stitch1669
c1575 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 220 The fruitis of the samin benefice beand separate fra the ground, be scheiring, stouking or stakking thairof.
1592 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 583/2 Quhen as the cornis ar standand vpon the grounde stoukit.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Endizeler les gerbes, to stonke [read stouke], or shocke vp sheaues of corne; to set, or make them vp in (tenne-sheaued) half-thraues.
1652 J. Lamont Diary (1830) 43 About Dundie in Angus ther was beare stowked.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 457 If the flax be so short and branchy as to appear most valuable for seed, it ought, after pulling, to be stooked.
1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 326 Still shearing and clearing The tither stooked raw.
1794 A. Pringle Gen. View Agric. Westmoreland 31 Four men may cut, tie, and stook, a customary acre in a day.
1813 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Glouc. 117 These [sheaves] are ‘stucked’, or placed upright, in parcels of ten.
1823 A. Small Rom. Antiq. Fife 135 Corn,..taken out of a place where it has not much air to dry it, and stooked up thick on the ground.
1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) II. 336/1 The corn is stooked upon the ridge where it grew.
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. viii. 177 They were stooking the barley in the glebe.
2. intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > stook
stooka1642
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 56 Oftentimes a painfull fellowe will not refuse to stooke after 7 or 8 sythes, if the binders will but..throwe him in the sheaves.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 159 Seven reapers generally have a man to bind and stook after them.
1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 262 Lasses to cut, and lasses to gether, and lasses to bin', and lasses to stook.
Derivatives
stooked adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > stooking or cocking > stooked or cocked
cocked1579
in cock1733
shockeda1861
stooked1884
1884 St. James's Gaz. 22 Aug. 14/2 Fields of shocked or stooked corn.
1900 S. R. Crockett Fitting of Peats iv, in Love Idylls (1901) 27 After the manner of stooked sheaves in a harvest-field.
ˈstooking n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking
cocking1575
stookingc1575
pooking1627
shocking1657
c1575 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 220 The fruitis of the samin benefice beand separate fra the ground, be scheiring, stouking or stakking thairof.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1066 In stooking, bean-sheaves are set up in pairs against one another.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 June 6/1 The cutting, the ‘stooking’, and the gathering into the stackyard of their corn.
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