Definition of "stooker"

(agriculture) One who stooks, as:

1. A person (e.g., smallholder, farm laborer) who gathers sheaves into stooks (shocks).  examples

2. A piece of mechanized farm equipment that does such a job, such as a bale stooker behind a baler or a sheaf stooker behind a binder (the latter type is largely obsolete).  examples