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Noun Concept
Categories: Harvest
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shock  stook  stooks
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A pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field WordNet 3.0
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A pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A stook /stʊk/, also referred to as a shock or stack, is an arrangement of sheaves of cut grain-stalks placed so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground while still in the field and before collection for threshing. Wikipedia
An arrangement of sheaves for drying; a stook. Wiktionary
A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century). Wiktionary
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Corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Whole fields of wheat in shock WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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pile
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shock
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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shock
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stook
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Stook
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shock, stook
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stooks

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