What is "netherstock"

Usage examples of "netherstock".

She was in charge of the dairy, and the Netherstock butter was famous through the country round, and always fetched top prices at the market.

Jean Martin, on coming up to Netherstock, had a long talk with the squire.

France, she had the less objection to it, inasmuch as the fear that the smuggling would be sooner or later discovered, and that ruin might fall upon Netherstock, was ever present in her mind, and in that of her elder sister.

She knew that if he remained at Netherstock he would grow up like his brothers.

At any rate, it is more useful than stopping at Netherstock, where I should have learned nothing except a little more Latin and Greek.

Stansfield was still alive, and things went on at Netherstock in very much the same fashion as before Patsey left home.

The clothing details, all in black and white and silver, were perfect-embroidery-edged neck and sleeve ruffs, tight-sleeved doublet laced up the front, paned trunk hose, patterned canions, and the netherstocks covered by knee-high cuffed boots.

The ranks of dancers suddenly cleared to give an excellent view of Thady Boy Ballagh giving a spirited rendering of New World agility, flanked on one side by a nude Brazilian and on the other by an Archer, stripped to his netherstocks and crimson with shame and a violent determination to win the wager undoubtedly in the offing.

Sir Nicholas went up the wide stairs two at a time, and found Joshua laying out a doublet and hose of slashed mochado, with netherstocks of carnation silk, and a clean stiff ruff.