stour
pronunciation
How to pronounce stour in British English:
UK [stʊə]
How to pronounce stour in American English:
US [stoʊr]
Word Origin
- stour (n.)
- c. 1300, "tumult, armed conflict, struggle with adversity or pain," from Anglo-French estur, Old French estour "a tumult, conflict, assault, shock, battle," from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz "storm" (cognates: Old High German sturm "storm; battle;" see storm (n.)). Became obsolete, revived by Spenser and his followers in various senses; also surviving as a Scottish and Northern English word meaning "a (driving) storm" or "uproar, commotion." Italian stormo also is from Germanic.
Example
- 1. Daishan is really a fairyland by the sea . We can made two day 's stour around daishan .
- 2. In the autumn of 1910 , an rl tippins hauled a maxim machine gun to the tidal mud of the river stour in suffolk and fired two bursts of about 30 bullets straight up into the air .