stook

Meanings

Noun

• A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
• A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century).

Verb

• To make stooks.

Origin

• From Middle English stowk, stouke, stouc, from or cognate with Middle Low German stûke, from Middle Low German stûken, from Old Saxon *stūkan, from Proto-Germanic *stūkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg-. Cognate with West Frisian stûkje, Dutch stuiken, German stauchen, Swedish stuka, Norwegian Nynorsk stauka.