stooker
(ˈstʊkə(r))
[f. stook v. + -er1]
One who arranges sheaves in stooks.
| 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 54 Wee allowe one stooker usually to 3 binders or 6 Sythes. 1822 J. Wilson Lights & Shadows Sc. Life 214, I was a stooker and a bandster on the Corn-rigs. 1904 Dundee Advertiser 20 July 5 Where the stookers have been able to keep up, what was..a waving mass of golden grain is now a regular succession of rows of stooks. |