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stour1, stoor
noun dust, fluff, sometimes flying, whirling dust: Stour and fluff blinded me, and clung to every part of me-even my eyebrows and nostrils. la18-.
verb to dust 19-. etymology: Scots; Older Scots stour ‘battle, conflict 1375’; Middle English stour, stur; Old French estour ‘tumult, conflict’; cognate with English storm; attested by JS and BW
stour2
noun a smell 20-.
verb to smell 20-. etymology: origin obscure; but potentially related to Older Scots stuir ‘the sturgeon’; collected by JS; also attested by SR