stound

Plural: stounds

Noun

An hour.
A tide, season.
A time, length of time, hour, while.
A brief span of time, moment, instant.
A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
Astonishment; amazement.
A stand; a stop.
A receptacle for holding small beer.

Verb

Verb Forms: stounded, stounding, stounds

To ache or throb with pain; to stun or astonish.
To hurt, pain, smart.
To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
To long or pine after, desire.
To stand still; stop.
To stop to listen; pause.

Examples

His head would STOUND after a long session of trying to unscramble difficult Scrabble racks.
Listen to me a little stound.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
Cognate with Scots stound (“while, period of time, moment, sudden pain, pang, stroke, blow”), dated Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), Low German Stund (“hour”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.

Synonyms

New York minute, New York second, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, duration, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, instant, interval, jiff, jiffy, jot, minute, mo, moment, no time, period, period of time, sec, second, space, span, split-second, spurt, stound, tick, tide, time, time interval, time period, timespan, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while

Scrabble Score: 7

stound: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
stound: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stound: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

stound: valid Words With Friends Word