Definition of "stook"

stook

/stʊk/

noun
plural stooks
1. A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
2. (specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent of combine harvesters and powered grain driers (mid 20th century).
  Quotations
  And on the road home they lay among the stooks and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then.
  1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16
  The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path.
  1958, Iris Murdoch, The Bell
verb
third-person singular simple present stooks, present participle stooking, simple past and past participle stooked
1. (intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.