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stour

/stoor/US // stʊər //UK // (staʊə) //

茎叶,茎部,茎杆,茎秆

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : British Dialect. tumult; confusion.a storm.
    • : British Dialect. blowing dust or a deposit of dust.
    • : Archaic. armed combat; battle.
    • : British Dialect. a time of tumult.

Examples

  • He landed in the same neighbourhood as before, and advanced 12 miles inland to the river Stour before meeting with the islanders.

  • I caught a beautiful fish weighing about eight or ten pounds, in the Hampshire Stour.

  • The artist was never tired of saying that these soft pastoral landscapes in the Stour valley made him a painter.

  • The spire of Honington is then seen on the left, and Shipston-on-Stour is entered.

  • But none has more beauty than that which runs southward to Shipston-on-Stour.