Definitions for stooks

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Spelling: [stoo k, stook]
IPA: /stʊk, stuk/

Stooks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in stooks (koosst).

Definitions for stooks

noun

  1. shock2 (def 1).

verb (used with object)

  1. shock2 (def 2).

verb (used without object)

  1. to stack sheaves of grain; form a pile of straw.

Origin of stooks

1400-50; late Middle English stouk, Old English stūc heap; cognate with Middle Low German stūke, German Stauche; akin to stock

Examples for stooks

He found a cornfield with a half-built stack, and sheaves in stook.

Maida went in headlong after her, and the stook began to be much agitated in various directions.

stook; a shock of corn, generally containing twelve sheaves.

If the season is late, as is usual with us, then mid-September sees the corn still standing in stook.

At the end of September the foliage was heavy green, and the wheat stood dejectedly in stook.

The wheat usually stands only a week in stook, and is then threshed on the field.

Eva sat on the top of a stook with her mouth open; the lark underneath, doubtless in no better plight.

Of course I had put on my landworker's clothes to stook in, and to my surprise this caused a great sensation.

"School isn't all games, I can tell you," said Keith, pulling a straw from the stook and chewing it meditatively.

The water was mild and blue, and the corn stood drowsily in "stook."

Word Value for stooks
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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