Meaning of stour | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.
   UK, Ulster, dialectal
2. A stake.
3. An armed battle or conflict.
   obsolete
4. A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
5. A round of a ladder.
6. A time of struggle or stress.
   obsolete
7. A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
8. A stave in the side of a wagon.
9. Tumult, commotion; confusion.
   dialectal
10. A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
11. A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.
12. A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
13. A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.

Examples

“Then there began a passyng harde stoure, for the Romaynes ever wexed ever bygger.”

“This pair, who past have many a dreadful stour, / And proffer now to prove this venture stout, / Alone to this attempt let them go forth, / Alone than thousands of more price and worth.”

“Then gan she waile and weepe, to see that woefull stowre.”

“The Stour is at its lowest ebb, and the sheen of the flats makes it difficult to tell where ground ends and water begins, out in the bay.”

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