stook
/stʊk/
noun
- A group of sheaves of grain (such as wheat or barley) stacked upright in a field to dry.
- Children played hide-and-seek among the stooks in the autumn fields.
- After harvesting, the farmer arranged the wheat into stooks to let them dry in the sun.
- The field was dotted with stooks of barley, standing like small golden tents.
verb
- To arrange sheaves of grain into a stook.
- In the old days, farmers would stook the wheat by hand, a slow and careful job.
- The workers spent the afternoon stooking the oats before the rain came.
- They taught us how to stook the barley so the heads stayed off the ground.