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.
Usage examples of "to stack the deck".
We've got to do our best to stack the deck, load the dice, whittle those odds down by any means necessary - because we can't afford to fight this one clean and fair.
It was pretty clear that the sergeant major had intended to stack the deck.
He had to deal the cards, and there had been no time to stack the deck.
He didn't have to do any fast shuffling, didn't have to stack the deck.
He directed his reelection organization, the Committee to Reelect the President--known (incredibly enough) by the acronym CREEP--to stack the deck even more thoroughly in his favor.
Im just your run-of-the-mill low-life tycoon trying to stack the deck.
I've got to be back there before noon, and I've got to stack the deck again in the meantime.