noun
- people who gather cut grain into stooks (bundles of sheaves set upright in a field to dry)
Usage: agricultural; chiefly British
Examples
- The stookers worked quickly to gather the wheat before the rain came.
- Experienced stookers could set up dozens of grain bundles in an hour.
- The farmer hired extra stookers during the busy harvest season.
- Traditional stookers used pitchforks to arrange the cut grain properly.
- Modern machinery has largely replaced the need for stookers in most farms.