Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word STOUR

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Definitions of STOUR

1. A stake.
2. A round of a ladder.
3. A stave in the side of a wagon.
4. A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.
5. (now, rare, outside, dialects, of cloth, land, etc.) Inflexible, stiff.
6. (now, rare, outside, dialects) Tall; large; stout.
7. (now, rare, outside, dialects) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.
8. (now, rare, outside, dialects) Bold; audacious.
9. (now, rare, outside, dialects) Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.
10. (now, rare, outside, dialects, of a voice) Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.
11. (obsolete) Resolute; unyielding.
12. (UKdialectal, Ulster) A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.
13. (nowchieflydialectal) Severely; strongly.
14. (obsolete) An armed battle or conflict.
15. (obsolete) A time of struggle or stress.
16. (nowdialectal) Tumult, commotion; confusion.
17. Alternative form of stoor.
18. A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
19. A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
20. A river in Essex and, Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
21. A river in Oxfordshire and, Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
22. A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.

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Examples of Using STOUR in a Sentence

• Its position on the estuaries of the Stour and Orwell rivers, with its usefulness to mariners as the only safe anchorage between the Thames and the Humber, led to a long period of civil and military maritime significance.
• The Roman settlement of Durovernum Cantiacorum ("Kentish Durovernum") occupied the location of an earlier British town whose ancient British name has been reconstructed as *Durou̯ernon ("stronghold by the alder grove"), although the name is sometimes supposed to have derived from various British names for the Stour.
• The Severn's major tributaries are the Vyrnwy, the Tern, the Teme, the Warwickshire Avon, and the Worcestershire Stour.
• The town became notable for its art in the 18th century, being the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough, whose landscapes offered inspiration to John Constable, another Suffolk painter of the surrounding Stour Valley area.
• It connects with the Sandlings Walk and (via the Stour and Orwell Walk) with the Essex Way and the Stour Valley Path.
• The AONB covers ancient woodland, commercial forestry, the estuaries of the Alde, Blyth, Deben, Orwell and Stour rivers, farmland, salt marsh, heathland, mudflats, reed beds, small towns and villages, shingle beaches and low eroding cliffs along 60 miles of coastline.
• Above Plucks Gutter, where the Little Stour joins it, the river is normally known as the Great Stour.
• The South Willesborough Dykes are on the banks of the East Stour in Willesborough, Ashford and helps form part of the Ashford Green Corridor.
• Below Bekesbourne it joins the Little Stour, which in turn joins with the Great Stour at Plucks Gutter near East Stourmouth.
• Formerly, the River Wantsum and the River Stour together formed the Wantsum Channel, which separated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland of Kent.
• In the Domesday Book of 1086 East Stour and West Stour together were recorded as Stur or Sture, which had 73 households and administratively was in Gillingham Hundred.
• West Stour is one of four parishes—the others being East Stour, Stour Provost and Todber—under the governance of The Stours Parish Council.
• Attempts to abandon it were thwarted by legal difficulties, but in 1914 the River Stour Navigation Company declared itself bankrupt, and the river soon became moribund.
• The Stour Estuary is a nature reserve in Essex, England, east of Colchester on the estuary of the River Stour, managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
• Since its formation, the Trust has restored Flatford and Dedham Locks, Flatford Barge Dock (in association with the National Trust), rescued an original River Stour lighter, and restored the Quay Basin, Gasworks Cut and 19th century Granary Building, which has become the headquarters for the Trust.
• It broadens into an estuary at Ipswich, where the Ipswich dock has operated since the 7th century, and then flows into the North Sea at Felixstowe, the UK's largest container port, after joining the River Stour at Shotley forming Harwich harbour.
• 17), to extend navigation on the River Stour in Kent, followed by the River Exe, with the River Exe Act 1539 (31 Hen.
• They settled on a stretch of raised land between the rivers Avon and Stour which carried people and their wares to and from market settlements such as Blandford and Old Sarum (near modern Salisbury).
• Wye became an important communications centre because of a ford across the River Great Stour connecting with ancient trackways across the North Downs.
• The vale is part of the Stour valley and part of the natural region known as the Blackmoor Vale and Vale of Wardour.
• East of Boughton Lees, the path splits in two, the northern section running via Canterbury and the southern via Wye; at this stage the path crosses the Stour Valley Walk and passes the Wye Crown.
• The two armies fight a battle at the river Stour where Locrinus is slain and Gwendolen becomes the ruler of both kingdoms, becoming the first queen regnant of the Kings of the Britons.
• Recently it has been suggested by Richard Coates that an Old European river-name was taken for an Old English adjective and that stour came to represent one pole of a structural opposition, with blyth at the opposite pole, allowing Anglo-Saxons to classify rivers on a continuum of fierceness.
• The ridge of the North Downs is intersected by the valleys of a series of rivers: the Wey, Mole, Darent, Medway and Stour.
• During the English Civil War, the self-appointed Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins carried out many trials throughout this and the surrounding area, especially in the town of Manningtree and village of Mistley on the River Stour.

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