stir(1) (iou) and Trade, Board of (sh)

stir(1) (iou)

stir noun1. . LME.
[from STIR verb.]
A slight or momentary movement; a brief interruption or disturbance of a state of calm or stillness. LME.
J. Hilton There was hardly any stir of wind, in contrast to the..gales that had raged the night before.
Commotion, tumult; General excitement; fuss; (vigorous) activity, bustle; esp. an instance of this. Formerly also (in pl.), public disturbance, riot, insurrection. LME.
S. Clarke Stirs or rebellions against the Empire. C. Thirlwall The stir of preparation immediately began. P. P. Read His provocative sermons denouncing capitalism had caused quite a stir.
fig. Stimulation of feeling or thought; emotion; intellectual activity; an instance of this. M16.
Keats They could not in the self-same mansion dwell Without some stir of heart.
An act of stirring something with a spoon or Other implement. E19.
J. Betjeman He gives his Ovaltine a stir.

Trade, Board of (sh)

Organized market for the exchange of commodity contracts (see commodity exchange).

The Toronto Board of Trade, one of the earliest, was incorporated in 1845. The first grain-futures exchange in the U.S. was organized in Chicago in 1848. The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) began as a voluntary association of prominent Chicago grain merchants and was chartered by the Illinois legislature in 1859. Initially it sold grain by sample; later it introduced a system of inspection and grading to standardize the market and facilitate trading. By 1858 access to the trading floor was limited to members with seats on the exchange. It became the world's largest commodity exchange in terms of volume and value of business.

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