stooking †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the practice or skill of setting sheaves of grain up in stooks (def. la).

See: stook ((n.)) (def. 1a)

Quotations

1913

I had worked hard for the farmer, pitching and stooking.

1966

[Caption] Eight binders, giants of their day, move down the field and the men who do the stooking are pressed to keep up.