The difference between Hour and Stound
When used as nouns, hour means a time period of sixty minutes, whereas stound means an hour.
Stound is also verb with the meaning: to hurt, pain, smart.
check bellow for the other definitions of Hour and Stound
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Hour as a noun:
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
Examples:
"I spent an hour at lunch."
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Hour as a noun:
A season, moment, time or stound.
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Hour as a noun (poetic):
The time.
Examples:
"The hour grows late and I must go home."
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Hour as a noun (military, in the plural):
Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
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Hour as a noun (chiefly, _, US):
A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
Examples:
"This place is an hour away from where I live."
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Stound as a noun (chronology, obsolete, or, dialectal):
An hour.
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Stound as a noun (obsolete):
A tide, season.
Examples:
"rfquotek Chaucer"
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Stound as a noun (archaic, or, dialectal):
A time, length of time, hour, while.
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Stound as a noun (archaic, or, dialectal):
A brief span of time, moment, instant.
Examples:
"Listen to me a little stound."
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Stound as a noun:
A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
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Stound as a noun (dialectal):
A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
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Stound as a noun (by extension):
A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); a lashing; scourging
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Stound as a noun:
A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
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Stound as a noun:
Astonishment; amazement.
Examples:
"rfquotek Edmund Spenser"
"rfquotek John Gay"
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Stound as a verb (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive):
To hurt, pain, smart.
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Stound as a verb (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive):
To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.
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Stound as a verb (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive):
To long or pine after, desire.
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Stound as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To stand still; stop.
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Stound as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To stop to listen; pause.
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Stound as a noun (UK, _, dialectal):
A stand; a stop.
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Stound as a noun:
A receptacle for holding small beer.