stook

verb, arrange (bales or sheaves) in stooks (COD)

“I did everything in the fields. The only thing I never did was stook grain.”

“The straw itself’s not that heavy, but sometimes the grain on top can be heavy.”
“Yeah. And we stooked it up like this.”

“There was many thistles in the grain, and you wouldn’t have gloves on when you were stooking it.”

“The farmers we worked for, they stooked and thrashed with a thrashing machine.”

“We had to stook grain and things like that.”

“And stook the wheat or oats, whatever they had. And then bring it in and harvest it in the thrashing machines.”

“When we were stooking the grain, I remember those stubbles about this high when we were walking.”

“You had the binder out there. Cut the grain with a binder, and the sheaves were all kicked out on the ground, and you had to go and stook the sheaves, stand them up so they’d dry.”

“I remember stooking grain, you know. When the binder binds the grain, it puts little sheaves, and then you take the sheaves and you stand them up like this.”

“You went out stooking grain, you know.”

“They used to have grain and they’d stook grain … He taught me how to stook grain. He says ‘You take this fork and put it down, and I put my fork down, and we make a big stook of grain’. And then they could go along and the thrashing machine would come around and would go from one farm to another. I remember getting involved in a thrashing machine supper.”