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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Stocking \Stock"ing\, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
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Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking[1]; as:
A broad ring of color, differing from the general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse.
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A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.
Stocking \Stock"ing\, v. t.
To dress in GBs.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"close-fitting garment covering the foot and lower leg," 1580s, from stock "leg covering, stocking" (late 15c.), from Old English stocu "sleeve," related to Old English stocc "trunk, log" (see stock (n.1)). Probably so called because of a fancied resemblance of legs to tree trunks, or a reference to the punishing stocks. Cognates include Old Norse stuka, Old High German stuhha, from the same Proto-Germanic source. Restriction to women's hose is 20c. As a receptacle for Christmas presents, attested from 1853; hence stocking stuffer first recorded 1945. Stocking-feet "without shoes" is from 1802.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear. 2 A broad ring of a different colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped. 3 A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting. Etymology 2
vb. (present participle of stock English)
WordNet
adj. wearing stockings; "walks about in his stockinged (or stocking) feet" [syn: stockinged]
n. close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
the activity of supplying a stock of something; "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout"
Wikipedia
Stockings (also known as hose, especially in a historical context) are close-fitting, variously elastic garments covering the leg from the foot up to the knee or possibly part or all of the thigh. Stockings vary in color, design, and transparency. Today, stockings are primarily worn for fashion and aesthetics, usually in association with mid-length skirts.
By analogy, the term "stocking" is also used to describe a type of horse marking in which the white coloring extends from the horse's hoof to just above the knee.
In forestry, stocking is a quantitative measure of the area occupied by trees, usually measured in terms of well-spaced trees or basal area per hectare, relative to an optimum or desired level of density. A desirable level of stocking is often considered that which maximizes timber production, or other management objectives.
Stocking can be expressed in either absolute or relative terms. Absolute terms include the basal area or trees per acre. Relative terms measure the density against a reference level, which is determined by dominant tree species, the plant community, and site index.
Stand density is not the same as stocking. See stand density index for the difference.
A stocking is an elastic garment covering the foot and lower part of the leg.
Stocking may also refer to:
- Stocking (forestry), a measure of tree density
- Stocking, Austria, an Austrian municipality
- Stocking Creek, a stream in Minnesota
- Stocking Lake (disambiguation)
- Christmas stocking, a type of Christmas decoration
- Fish stocking, the practice of raising fish in a hatchery and releasing them into a river, lake, or ocean
- One of the three title characters of the anime series Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Usage examples of "stocking".
Just as she was serving them, lo and behold, over the threshold came their neighbor AH Aga with his stocking and knitting needles and with the green bag given him by Renio slung around his shoulders.
Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ancles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.
Offered stockings to Mrs Fowler, next door to Mrs Ascher, and to half a dozen other people in the street.
Felicite and Madame Aubain also took out the skirts, the handkerchiefs, and the stockings and spread them on the beds, before putting them away again.
Well-bred and shy about her body, Aurora stood silently as he dispensed with her gown and corset and stockings.
One emblematic evening I watched Franklin pump to apogee and bail out, no doubt escaping one of those avuncular Flying Fortresses on a parachute that thighs sacrificed their stocking silks for.
The azimuth screen was equally empty, its operator equally intent, having wholly forgotten sick mother, errant boy friend, and laddered stockings as she stared at the screen in front of her.
The dye from his stocking infected the scratch and, bedad, his leg had to be sawed off.
This young lady managed the whole family, even a little the small beflounced sister, who, with bold pretty innocent eyes, a torrent of fair silky hair, a crimson fez, such as is worn by male Turks, very much askew on top of it, and a way of galloping and straddling about the ship in any company she could pick up--she had long thin legs, very short skirts and stockings of every tint-- was going home, in elegant French clothes, to resume an interrupted education.
As she was putting on the stocking, she remarked that my legs were not clean, and without any more ado she immediately began to wash them.
Theodore de Beze wore the dress of a courtier, black silk stockings, low shoes with straps across the instep, tight breeches, a black silk doublet with slashed sleeves, and a small black velvet mantle, over which lay an elegant white fluted ruff.
Foye, in her buxom cheeriness, was drawn to give some of it forth to the uncouth-looking, companionless girl, and not only began a chat with her, after the momentary stir in the street was over, and she had settled herself upon her stool, and leaning her back against a tree, set vigorously to work again at knitting a stout blue yarn stocking, but also treated Bubby and Baby to some bits of her sweet merchandise, and told them about the bears and the monkeys that had gone by, shut up in the gay, red-and-yellow-painted wagons.
In plain buffin doublets and kersey stockings and heavy, hobnail shoes, they stood cheek by jowl with artisans in leather jerkins and red Monmouth caps.
One morning she came to me as I was in bed and brought me a pair of white stockings of her own knitting.
As I had said, the husband came upstairs with my stockings and told her that I had been good enough to give her a room in my house.