stour

Plural: stours

Adj

Tall; large; stout.
Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.
Bold; audacious.
Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.
Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.
Inflexible, stiff.
Resolute; unyielding.

Noun

Dust, especially fine, swirling dust.
A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.
A stake.
A round of a ladder.
A stave in the side of a wagon.
A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.
An armed battle or conflict.
A time of struggle or stress.
Tumult, commotion; confusion.

Adv

Severely; strongly.

Verb

Alternative form of stoor.

Examples

His Scrabble board was covered in a fine STOUR after he played a word with all his ’S’ tiles.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English store, stoor, stour (“tall, powerful”), from Old English stōr (“tall, great, mighty, strong”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōr, from Proto-Germanic *stōraz, *stōrijaz (“great, big, strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-r-, *stō-r- (“steadfast, firm; standing tall; big, bulky”).
Cognates
Akin to Scots stour (“tall, large, great, stout”), Saterland Frisian stor (“great, many”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian stor (“large, great”), Icelandic stórr (“large, tall”), Polish stary (“old, ancient”), Albanian stër- (“big, huge”). Compare also stoor, steer, stately.

Scrabble Score: 5

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

Words With Friends Score: 6

stour: valid Words With Friends Word