Crossword clues for stocked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stock \Stock\ (st[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked (st[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
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To put in the stocks. [R.]
--Shak.To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called to stack the deck. [Cant]
To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass.
To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: stock)
WordNet
adj. furnished with more than enough; "rivers well stocked with fish"; "a well-stocked store" [syn: stocked with]
Usage examples of "stocked".
They had movable tops and counters, and their shelves were stocked with hundreds of varieties of books.
Up to the year 1849, when the publishing department was moved to Buffalo, and only a bookstore remained of the Phinney enterprise in Cooperstown, their efforts had built up in this village a large publishing business, while they stocked and maintained the largest bookstores in towns as far away as Utica, Buffalo, and Detroit.
As a matter of fact, Otsego Lake has been stocked with whitefish fry from the Great Lakes, and now the nets of fishermen are always filled with a mixture of whitefish and Otsego bass.
He holds that Otsego bass is quite distinct from whitefish, but believes that the true Otsego bass has disappeared, giving place to a hybrid fish, now called Otsego bass, but really a cross between that variety and the whitefish with which Otsego has been stocked from the Great Lakes.
There is a bar at the farther end of the room, which is well stocked with the meanest liquors, and chairs and benches are scattered about.
So the wagons in which people no longer had to ride to sleep were stocked full of hay and grain for the horses and elephant, smoked meats for the lion, staple groceries for the humans, canisters of calcium carbide for the limelights, coils of rope, cans of paint and tar and coal oil and axle grease, harness and horseshoes and miscellaneous hardware, fabrics and thread and sequins for the wardrobe.
They strolled the streets and ogled the enticingly stocked shop windows and bought things.
Fitzfarris immediately began canvassing the Apotheken of the city until he found one that stocked the lycopodium flash powder, so he could add his vanishing-girl fillip to the occasion.
Governor Trochu had stocked the city with forty thousand beeves and two hundred thousand sheep in the Bois and the Luxembourg Gardens, plus warehouses full of flour and coal and ammunition.
These rifles were of a white metal stocked with wood, which I learned later was a very light and intensely hard growth much prized on Mars, and entirely unknown to us denizens of Earth.
When the supply gave out he replenished it from another, more fully stocked source.