Definitions for stours

stours stour

Spelling: [stoo r]
IPA: /stʊər/

Stours is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in stours (orsstu).

Definitions for stours

noun

  1. British Dialect. tumult; confusion. a storm.
  2. British Dialect. blowing dust or a deposit of dust.
  3. Archaic. armed combat; battle.
  4. British Dialect. a time of tumult.

Origin of stours

1250-1300; Middle English Old French estour battle Germanic; akin to storm

Examples for stours

The stour rises in Lenham itself, but its course has at first no effect upon the landscape, so even is the plain below.

Sturminster is a small and ancient town on the eastern bank of the stour.

Blandford St. Mary is the suburb on the west side of the stour.

For we said that we would all die together if needs must; and verily the stour was hard.

I have wandered through these Dedham fields by the banks of the stour.

Even the stour, whose valley it is compelled to follow, it regards from heights well above the river.

He's our leading antiquarian, and knows more about the stour Valley than any one else.

It is the dividing line between the basins of the Medway and the stour.

The principal rivers are the stour, the Frome, and the Piddle.

Next, it must be noted that these slopes down to the stour were open when the plateau above was dense forest.

Word Value for stours
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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