Lexicographical Neighbors of Stours
Literary usage of Stours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A Contribution to the by George Tobias Flom (1900)
""This is performed by fixing stakes or stours, as they are called, in the sand
either ... These stours are fixed in a line across the tideway at a distance ..."
2. Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, from the Original by Durham Cathedral, Joseph Thomas Fowler (1901)
"stours, 104, 158, 296, 322, 720, 721 ; for sheep hocks, 302* ; see Hek- stours.
Slovens, young suckers of trees, 249. Stowage, 545. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... of a cart are the wooden " stours " round its sides. A " bolt " is made of
metal, and is distinguished from a trenail. TRESSES, the frame of a table. ..."
4. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office (1907)
"... goshawks (on-stours) and tercel goshawks, in whatever part of the Trente they
can find them, to wit a falcon for 20s., a tercel gentil for 4 mark, ..."
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