FromMiddle English stowk stouke stouc Middle Low German stûke ( “ bundle of grain ” ) , fromMiddle Low German stûken ( “ to push, bump, compress ” ) , fromOld Saxon *stūkan Proto-Germanic *stūkaną ( “ to be stiff, push ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- ( “ to pound, push, beat ” ) .
Cognate withWest Frisian stûkje ( “ to pile up, stop ” ) ,Dutch stuiken ( “ to bundle, stamp ” ) ,German stauchen ( “ to compress ” ) ,Swedish stuka ( “ to rick, wrench, upset ” ) ,Norwegian Nynorsk stauka ( “ to whack, chop ” ) .
stook (plural stooks
Apile orbundle , especially ofstraw . ( specifically ) sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent ofcombine harvesters andpowered grain driers (mid 20th century).1932 Lewis Grassic Gibbon ,Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published2006 , page16 :And on the road home they lay among thestooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
1958 Iris Murdoch ,The Bell :The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tentedstooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.
( slang , obsolete ) handkerchief .1866 Temple Bar , volume16 , page507 :Loud was the laughter at this and other remarks about nailing "stooks " (silk pocket handkerchiefs), "clouts" (cotton ditto), german sausages, &c.
A stook .stook (third-person singular simple present stooks present participle stooking simple past and past participle stooked
( intransitive , agriculture ) stooks .stook
inflection ofstoken first-person singular present indicative (in case ofinversion )second-person singular present indicative imperative FromMiddle English stook Middle Low German stūke Old Saxon *stūkan Proto-Germanic *stūkaną ( “ to be stiff, push ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *(s)tewg- ( “ to pound, push, beat ” ) .
stook (plural stooks
sheaf ,bundle ( of straw ) 
