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stook

(stuːk)

(Agriculture) a number of sheaves set upright in a field to dry with their heads together

(Agriculture) (tr) to set up (sheaves) in stooks

[C15: variant of stouk, of Germanic origin; compare Middle Low German stūke, Old High German stūhha sleeve]

ˈstooker n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Stook

a heap or bundle; a truss of flax or of sheaves of grain, 1530. See also cock.

Examples: stook of corn, 1530; of flax; of grain, 1530; of hay, 1600; of leaves, 1892; of rocks, 1865; of straw, 1571; of good thatch, 1876.

stook

Past participle: stooked
Gerund: stooking

Imperative
stook
stook

Present
I stook
you stook
he/she/it stooks
we stook
you stook
they stook

Preterite
I stooked
you stooked
he/she/it stooked
we stooked
you stooked
they stooked

Present Continuous
I am stooking
you are stooking
he/she/it is stooking
we are stooking
you are stooking
they are stooking

Present Perfect
I have stooked
you have stooked
he/she/it has stooked
we have stooked
you have stooked
they have stooked

Past Continuous
I was stooking
you were stooking
he/she/it was stooking
we were stooking
you were stooking
they were stooking

Past Perfect
I had stooked
you had stooked
he/she/it had stooked
we had stooked
you had stooked
they had stooked

Future
I will stook
you will stook
he/she/it will stook
we will stook
you will stook
they will stook

Future Perfect
I will have stooked
you will have stooked
he/she/it will have stooked
we will have stooked
you will have stooked
they will have stooked

Future Continuous
I will be stooking
you will be stooking
he/she/it will be stooking
we will be stooking
you will be stooking
they will be stooking

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been stooking
you have been stooking
he/she/it has been stooking
we have been stooking
you have been stooking
they have been stooking

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been stooking
you will have been stooking
he/she/it will have been stooking
we will have been stooking
you will have been stooking
they will have been stooking

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been stooking
you had been stooking
he/she/it had been stooking
we had been stooking
you had been stooking
they had been stooking

Conditional
I would stook
you would stook
he/she/it would stook
we would stook
you would stook
they would stook

Past Conditional
I would have stooked
you would have stooked
he/she/it would have stooked
we would have stooked
you would have stooked
they would have stooked

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

Translations

stook

[stuːk]

A. N → tresnal m, garbera f

B. VT → poner en tresnales

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

stook

n → Hocke f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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Once the field was neatly stooked in a uniformed way the stooks were placed in one direction to weather them for around three weeks, sometimes longer.

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Oats and wheat were grown to be harvested for grain or cut as sheaves and stooked into haystacks that became chaff for the horses.

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"It exploded in a farmer's field, neatly stooked with grain for harvesting and left it as bare as the floor.

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``We had finished most of the hay harvest apart from this one field,and any bales that were still out had been stooked up in fours.

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The reed is cut and it then has to be stooked. It stands in the fields to dry for two to three weeks before being collected and stored in readiness for combing.