dial. Also stowk, stook. [Of obscure origin.] The handle of a pail or other vessel.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 46. A Stowk … the handle of a Pail.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. xiv. (Roxb.), 5/1. [A pottinger] is an half round vessell in the belly without a brime, some haueing two eares, but most onely one eare or handle or stouke as the countrey terme is.
1817. Wilbraham, Cheshire Gloss., in Archæologia, XIX. 38. Stowk, a stalk or handle of a pail.
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Stouk, a handle, as of any wooden or earthenware vessel.
1882. W. Worcestersh. Gloss., Add. s.v., Please, ’m, I took ’old o’ the jug, an’ the stook come off in my ’and.
