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How to use stook in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word stook? Here are some examples.

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Crops of corn that were harvested with the binder were cut under ripe so that the grain would ripen in the stook.
All the mowers would throw their scythes at the final stook so that no one person would be responsible for the corn spirit's death.
The former branch chairman was commenting on a provision in the land management contracts scheme for farmers to be paid extra if they bind and stook crops.
Take part in the busy harvest season as we bind and stook the fields in preparation for the threshing gangs.
A few minutes later I found myself sitting on top of the wagon, lurching down secret back roads to his house where I was taught how to stook and rewarded with a tot of homemade spirits.
Most vividly of all, I recall the exercise of will required to divert the orbiting hand away from the scalp – because the last thing you want to do is draw attention to the fact that you are losing your stook.
For the past century or so the most popular gambling games have been the card games of poker, stook and blackjack, and the dice games of craps and barbotte.
Examples from Classical Literature
Maida went in headlong after her, and the stook began to be much agitated in various directions.
If the season is late, as is usual with us, then mid-September sees the corn still standing in stook.
At the end of September the foliage was heavy green, and the wheat stood dejectedly in stook.
The wheat usually stands only a week in stook, and is then threshed on the field.
Of course I had put on my landworker's clothes to stook in, and to my surprise this caused a great sensation.
He found a cornfield with a half-built stack, and sheaves in stook.
Lieutenant James Matheson was wounded but Tollerton managed to carry him to cover in a corn stook.
Anthony Vineyards identified early on that to maintain organic grape sales, retailers had to be able to stook organic grapes year-round.
He offered to turn us men loose to stook the field if the farmer would turn the money over to the Red Cross.
The arresting poster of the Dominion Exhibition in Calgary in 1908 had announced that fact with the once-free cowboy halted by barbed wire protecting a stook of wheat.
Elias Stook also went 2-for-2 for Cottage Grove, and Lucas Ward pitched four shutout innings.
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