Sentence:  The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented <WSD>stooks</WSD> about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path. 
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).