See Also: stook(medicine)
stook(1)(dictionary)
stook(2)(dictionary)

Nithsdale (iou) and stook(2) (iou)


Nithsdale (iou)



Nithsdale noun. E18.
[The Countess of Nithsdale, who enabled her Jacobite husband to escape from the Tower in 1716 disguised in her cloak and hood.]
Hist. A long hooded riding cloak fashionable in the 18th cent.

stook(2) (iou)



stook noun2. arch. slang. M19.
[Perh. from German Stuck piece.]
A pocket handkerchief.