stook, verb intransitive

Origin:: Afrikaans.

To distil spirits. See also stoker.

1977 Family Radio & TV 19 Sept. 51Often the licence and the still have been in the family for close on a century. ‘I stook because my pa and oupa did before me,’ says Skilly P— of Besemkop near Calitzdorp.

To distil spirits.

Derivatives:: Hence stoking /ˈstʊəkɪŋ/ verbal noun, distilling.

1990 M. Shafto in Weekend Argus 9 June 11The liberalising of the law on mampoer stoking.

1990 M. Shafto in Weekend Argus [see mampoer sense 1].

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stoofie, nounn.stop, nounn.

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