stook

Definitions

1. A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
2. A group of six or eight sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent of combine harvesters and powered grain driers (mid 20th century).
   specifically
3. A handkerchief.
   obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“And on the road home they lay⟳ among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make⟳ sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.”

“The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut⟳ and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.”

“Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks" (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.”

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