stooks

About sufficient sheaves to form half a dozen of our "stooks" at home is evenly spread on the floor, while a pair of oxen draw a sledge made of two stout boards, about 5 feet long, turned up at the point, and studded most carefully with flints projecting fully half an inch.

The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson

All the lowlands and haughs were covered with a sea of water, down the centre of which a mighty river was chafing and roaring, carrying on its bosom trees up-torn from their roots, pieces of green bank, "stooks" of corn and "coles" of hay, and, saddest of all, the swollen bodies of sheep and oxen.

Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Gordon Stables 1875

The rising slope of the field was clad in dull golden stubble and great rolled stooks of corn marched up it, a grey stag-headed oak reared up on the low horizon and leaned against the great clouds and silver fringing western light of evening, the dark birds of the mind swooped and poured and circled through the darkening air.

Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

Here are some good pictures of various places, Ohio in the main, fields, stooks, barns and gothic, angular houses. from → Observations

Shutterbuggery « Unknowing 2010

I carefully cut down my wheat, tied it up into stooks and let it dry.

Separating the wheat from the chaff doyle 2009

I carefully cut down my wheat, tied it up into stooks and let it dry.

Archive 2009-03-01 doyle 2009

There's something very Saskatchewany about this picture: the old-fashioned stooks of wheat and the way the road arrows, straight as a ... well, as an arrow ... to the horizon appeal to my inner prairie boy.

Photo of the Day: Grading, But Not on the Curve Edward Willett 2006

There's something very Saskatchewany about this picture: the old-fashioned stooks of wheat and the way the road arrows, straight as a ... well, as an arrow ... to the horizon appeal to my inner prairie boy.

Archive 2006-11-19 Edward Willett 2006

But finding myself unable at last to bear this any longer, upon the first day when all the wheat was cut, and the stooks set up in every field, yet none quite fit for carrying, I saddled good

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

A fluster of wood-pigeons rose from some stooks on her left and crossed over to the wood by the river; the light was growing level, and evening sounds fluttered in the crisper air.

Maid in Waiting 2004