stoor

verb

1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To move; stir.
2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To move actively; keep stirring.
3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
4. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To stir up, as liquor.
5. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
6. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To sprinkle.

noun

1. (UK, dialectal)Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
2. (UK, dialectal)A gush of water.
3. (UK, dialectal)Spray.
4. (UK, dialectal)A sufficient quantity of yeast for brewing.

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of stour.

   “A fenny gooſe, even as her fleſhe is blacker, ſtoorer, unholſomer, ſo is her feather, for the ſame cauſe, courſer, ſtoorer, and rougher, and therefore I have heard very good fletchers ſay, that the ſecond fether in ſome place is better than the pinion in other ſome.”