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stook ((n.)) † [stuk] 
1a n. a structure of grain sheaves, sometimes set up end to end in five or six pairs (a long stook), sometimes in a circle with a crossed pair on top as a shed (a round stook).
See also: stook ((v.))
- 1835 (1926) [My grain], notwithstanding two or three bushels per acre loss by shedding, from the constanting shifting of the stooks . . . will yield nearly if not quite twenty-five bushels per acre fit to go to the mill. . . .
- 1905 After the grain had been bound it was gathered together and stood on end, two sheaves in a pair, in "stooks" or "shocks" of ten to twelve sheaves to dry.
- 1966 [You] lead your wagon along row after row of stooks, pitching them up onto the wagon
1b n. a stack of bales of hay.
- 1958 This machine consists of a platform pulled behind the hay baler and it leaves stooks of six bales.
2 n. in (the) stook, of grain, at the stage of harvesting when stooked.
- 1922 . . . the last sheaf of his six hundred acre crop was in stook.
- 1958 . . . after it had dried thoroughly in the stook. . . .
- 1835 (1926) [My grain], notwithstanding two or three bushels per acre loss by shedding, from the constanting shifting of the stooks . . . will yield nearly if not quite twenty-five bushels per acre fit to go to the mill. . . .