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Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne, England arranged into a stook. Stooking maize in Kenya.. A stook /stʊk/, also referred to as a shock or stack, [1] is an arrangement of sheaves of cut grain-stalks placed so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground while still in the field and before collection for threshing.
Multiple Tiwaz runes either stacked atop one another to resemble a tree-like shape, or repeated after one another, appear several times in Germanic paganism: The charm ( alu ) on the Lindholm amulet , dated from the 2nd to the 4th century, contains three consecutive t runes, which have been interpreted as an invocation of Týr.
A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Scottish Gaelic: càrn [ˈkʰaːrˠn̪ˠ] (plural càirn [ˈkʰaːrˠɲ]). [1] Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes.
The Si Stebbins stack is a cyclic mathematical card stack. It was popularized by the magician Si Stebbins, and can be constructed from a standard 52-card deck. [ 1 ] Frequently used in card magic, its properties allow the position and value of each card in a deck to be determined.
The above definitions spell out the interval of each note above the root. Since triads are constructed of stacked thirds, they can be alternatively defined as follows: major triads contain a major third with a minor third stacked above it, e.g., in the major triad C–E–G (C major), the interval C–E is major third and E–G is a minor third.
The term smokestack (colloquially, stack) is also used when referring to locomotive chimneys or ship chimneys, and the term funnel can also be used. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The height of a chimney influences its ability to transfer flue gases to the external environment via stack effect .
Stacked is an American sitcom which aired in 2005 and 2006.. Stacked may also refer to: . Stacked, a 2008 British television series pilot; Stacked with Daniel Negreanu, also known as simply Stacked, a poker video game released in 2006
Using the same total on the dice (or the total of the two throws), the player whose wall is chosen then counts the stacks of tiles from right to left. (For double throws, the count may extend to the left side player's stack.) This determines the location where the 'deck' of tiles is cut.