Sentence:  And on the road home they lay among the <WSD>stooks</WSD> and maybe Ellison did this and that to make sure of getting her, he was fair desperate for any woman by then. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, obsolete since the advent of the combine harvester (mid 20th century).