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thumb|Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne, England arranged into a stook. thumb|Stooking maize in Kenya. A stook /stʊk/, shock, Aisle (North Somerset), Kiver (Cheshire/Staffordshire)(pronounced Kivver), or stack, (although the word stack more usually refers to larger amounts of cereal crops or hay stored in a barn or stackyard) is an arrangement by which bound sheaves of cut grain-stalks, complete with the grain, are placed with their butts on the ground, leaning together so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground during the period when left in the field. This is after the crop has been cut w