stour English

Meaning stour meaning

What does stour mean?

stour adjective

— (now, rare, outside, dialects) Tall; large; stout.

— (now, rare, outside, dialects) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.

— (now, rare, outside, dialects) Bold; audacious.

— (now, rare, outside, dialects) Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.

— (now, rare, outside, dialects, of a voice) Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.

— (now, rare, outside, dialects, of land or cloth) Stiff; inflexible.

— (obsolete) Resolute; unyielding.

stour adverb

— (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal) Severely; strongly.

stour noun

— A stake.

— A round of a ladder.

— A stave in the side of a wagon.

— A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.

stour noun

— (obsolete) An armed battle or conflict.

— (obsolete) A time of struggle or stress.

— (now, _, dialectal) Tumult, commotion; confusion.

— (UK, _, dialectal, Ulster) A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.

Stour properNoun

— A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.

— A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.

— A river in East Anglia flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.

— A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.

— A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.