Usually means: Dust, tumult, or a commotion.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stour, stour: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Stour, stour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Stour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Stour, stour: Wordnik
  6. Stour, stour: Wiktionary
  7. stour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. stour: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Stour: Dictionary.com
  10. stour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Stour (narrowboat), Stour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Stour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. stour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Stour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. stour: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. stour: Free Dictionary
  17. Stour: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stour: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stour: The Folk File
  2. stour: Urban Dictionary

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.]

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