Read full poem →Began to fear, a fa’, man;
And Sackville dour, wha stood the stour,
The German chief to thraw, man:
Dictionary Entry
(now rare outside dialectal) Tall; large; stout.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. stourvalley stourriver stourstreet stournear stourstour riverstour papastour east
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Poetry examples for “stour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →That make the miser’s treasure poor:
How blythely was I bide the stour,
A weary slave frae sun to sun,
Read full poem →Yestreen I met you on the moor,
Ye spak na, but gaed by like stour;
Ye geck at me because I’m poor,
Read full poem →Along through the Stour-bordered Forum,
Where Legions had wayfared,