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stour

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈstɔː/Sorted orstuStarts with SEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Tall; big; stout.

Word origin

From Middle English store, stoor, stour (“tall, powerful”), from Old English stōr (“tall, great, mighty, strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz (“great, big, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- (“steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky”).

Used in a sentence

  • Then there began a passyng harde stoure, for the Romaynes ever wexed ever bygger.
  • This pair, who past have many a dreadful stour, / And proffer now to prove this venture stout, / Alone to this attempt let them go forth, / Alone than thousands of more price and worth.
  • "Travel shall I and woo; Plight me shall I a flower; Try shall I my sword so good, To my weal or my woe in the stour."

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