stook
A pile or bundle, especially of strawA pile or bundle, especially of straw.
Meaning
3 sensesA pile or bundle, especially of straw.
Docke
копна́kopná, скирда́skirdá
(specifically)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).
(obsolete, slang)A handkerchief.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English stowk, stouke, stouc, from or cognate with Middle Low German stûke (“bFrom Middle English stowk, stouke, stouc, from or cognate with Middle Low German stûke (“bundle of grain”), from Middle Low German stûken (“to push, bump, compress”), from Old Saxon *stūkan, from Proto-Germanic *stūkaną (“to be stiff, push”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- (“to pound, push, beat”). The modern vocalism is of Northern dialectal origin (for expected stuck; compare duck, puck, and suck).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.