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Definition: STOOK |
STOOKNoun1. A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves. Transitive verb1. To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks. |
Date "STOOK" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | The last stump or corner block of coal left when extracting pillars bymeans of lifts, in pillar methods of working. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STOOK |
| English words defined with "STOOK": Stooked, Stooking, Stuckle ♦ Thrave. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STOOK": Stuckle. (references) |
| "STOOK" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STOOK" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "STOOK": stook of corn. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "STOOK": rice-stook. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STOOK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | hob (cluster, round stock, shock, stack, stool). (various references) | |
Dutch | schelf (heap, pile, stack). (various references) | |
Finnish | panna kuhilaalle (to shock, to stook), kuhiloida (to shock, to stook), heinäsuova (stook of hay). (various references) | |
French | moyette (stack, stool). (various references) | |
German | hocke (crouch, shock, shook, squat, squat vault, squatting position, vault). (various references) | |
Greek | σωρόσ (cluster, collection, crop, drift, heap, hoard, mass, pile, shoal, stack, tumulus), μικρή θυμωνιά, θυμωνιά (swath, swathe), θημωνιά (hay cock, hay stack, hayrick, haystack, shock, stack). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערמת שחת (hayrick, haystack), כובע" (stack of hay). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pillér (bearing, buttress, column, leg, pier, pillar, post, stanchion, stand, upright), kereszt (cross, tree), kepe. (various references) | |
Italian | bica (round stock, shock, stack, stool). (various references) | |
Manx | sthookey (stooking), sthook (shock of sheaves). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ookstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | meda (rick, stack). (various references) | |
Scottish | mulan (small stook of hay or corn). (various references) | |
Spanish | seico. (various references) | |
Swedish | skyla (cloak, cover, hide, screen, shock, veil), skyl (round stock, shock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STOOK": stooked, stooker, stookers, stooking, stooks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "STOOK": mistook. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kotos. | |
| Words within the letters "k-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: koto, oots, sook, soot, took. | |
-2 letters: kos, oot, sot, too, tsk. | |
-3 letters: os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-o-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: kotows, stooks, strook. | |
+2 letters: kowtows, mistook, stooked, stooker. | |
+3 letters: booklets, bookrest, bowknots, cookouts, cooktops, folkmots, hookiest, hooklets, kilotons, kookiest, kotowers, lockouts, lookouts, outcooks, outlooks, outrocks, outsmoke, outspoke, outworks, pothooks, rookiest, smokepot, stockpot, stookers, stooking, stopcock, studbook, talookas, tokomaks, topknots, topworks, workouts. | |
+4 letters: boathooks, bonteboks, bookrests, bookstall, bookstore, bootjacks, bootlicks, brookites, brooklets, cockatoos, cockboats, cocklofts, cocksfoot, cookstove, datebooks, folkmoots, folkmotes, footmarks, footworks, frostwork, hoopskirt, jackboots, kenotrons, kilovolts, knockouts, knotholes, kowtowers, notebooks, outsmoked, outsmokes, outspoken, overstock, photomask, pinkroots, pokeroots, rootstock, saskatoon, smokepots, snakeroot, spookiest, stinkwood, stockpots, stockroom, stokehold, stonework, stopcocks, storybook, studbooks, stylebook, teakwoods, textbooks, tokonomas, townsfolk, workboats. | |
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