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What (who) is stour - definition
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Stour (disambiguation)
stour
[st??]
(also stoor)
¦ noun Scottish & N. English dust forming a cloud or deposited in a mass.
Derivatives
stoury adjective
Origin
ME: of uncertain origin.
Stour
·adj Tall; strong; stern.
II. Stour ·noun A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.
HMS Stour
RIVER-CLASS DESTROYER
HMS Stour (1905)
HMS Stour was a Laird-type River-class destroyer purchased by the Royal Navy under the 1908 – 1909 Naval Estimates in December 1909. Named after the River Stour in West Central England near the city of Birmingham, she was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy.
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Stour
Stour may refer to:
- River Stour (disambiguation), several rivers
- HMS Stour, a Royal Navy River-class destroyer purchased in 1909
- Stour-class destroyer, the sub-class of Royal Navy destroyers of which HMS Stour was the lead ship
- Stour (narrowboat), a canalboat at the Black Country Living Museum, England
Examples of use of stour
1. Station commander Paul Stephens, 57, was at the scene in Atherstone–on–Stour, Warwickshire, as his son entered the building.
2. A group of Romany gipsies secretly bought the land near Shipston–on–Stour, Warwickshire, a year ago.
3. Of course, Papa Stour is not the only remote Scottish island that is facing depopulation and a precarious future.
4. "People don‘t like being told what is good for them in management of the countryside," said Will Pavry, chairman of the Stour Valley Action Group.
5. The view inspired Thomas Hardy, who lived near by while writing The Return of the Native, to compose the poems Overlooking the River Stour and On Sturminster Footbridge.