Stour v.

Sc. and north. Also stoor. [f. STOUR sb.¹ II.]

  1.  intr. Of a substance: To rise up in a cloud of dust or powder; to fly. Of snow: To drive.

1788.  W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 356. To Stoor; to rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, fallen lime, &c.

1860.  Ramsay, Remin., v. (1867), 87. In speaking of the dryness of the soil on a road in Lanarkshire, a farmer said, ‘It stoors in an oor.’

1891.  Atkinson, Moorland Parish, 360. It was a wild day indeed, the snow stouring in blinding clouds.

  2.  (See quot.)

1811.  Willan, in Archæologia, XVII. 160. Stour, to raise dust, to make a bustle.

  Hence Stouring ppl. a.

1891.  Atkinson, Moorland Parish (ed. 2), 361. The stouring snow which blew directly into one’s face and eyes.