noun
shock
A group of bundles of cut grain stood upright in a field to dry.
The farmer stands the grain bundles in a shock.
Etymology
Probably from a northern European word for a heap or group. A grain shock is a group of sheaves, separate from a sudden impact.
More examples
- Several shocks dried in the field.
- They gathered the cut stalks into shocks.
- A storm knocked over one of the shocks.
Forms
shock · shocks
Similar words
- sheaf
- One bundle of cut grain rather than several stood together.
- stook
- An alternative term for the upright grain arrangement.