Definitions from Wiktionary (stour)
adjective:  (now rare outside dialects) Tall; large; stout.
adjective:  (now rare outside dialects) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.
adjective:  (now rare outside dialects) Bold; audacious.
adjective:  (now rare outside dialects) Rough in manner; stern; austere; ill-tempered.
adjective:  (now rare outside dialects, of a voice) Rough; hoarse; deep-toned; harsh.
adjective:  (now rare outside dialects, of cloth, land, etc.) Inflexible, stiff.
adjective:  (obsolete) Resolute; unyielding.
noun:  (UK dialectal, Ulster) A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.
adverb:  (now chiefly dialectal) Severely; strongly.
noun:  A stake.
noun:  A round of a ladder.
noun:  A stave in the side of a wagon.
noun:  A large pole by which barges are propelled against the stream; a poy.
noun:  (obsolete) An armed battle or conflict.
noun:  (obsolete) A time of struggle or stress.
noun:  (now dialectal) Tumult, commotion; confusion.
noun:  A river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Christchurch.
noun:  A river in Kent, England, running from the confluence of the Great Stour and Little Stour to the English Channel at Pegwell Bay.
noun:  A river in Essex and Suffolk, England, flowing into the North Sea at Harwich.
noun:  A river in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, England, which joins the Warwickshire Avon near Stratford-on-Avon.
noun:  A river in Staffordshire, West Midlands, and Worcestershire, England, which flows into the River Severn.
verb:  Alternative form of stoor [(intransitive, UK dialectal) To move; stir.]meale, Stourbridge, Stoute, breede, streame, Tristram, Trost, leane, standish, Stert, more...


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