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stocking-foot
a. That part of a stocking which covers the foot.
1766Sharp Fracture in Phil. Trans. LVII. 86, I do not always remove the shoe and stocking-foot. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour lxviii, What a convenience to have one's wife's maid to sew on one's buttons, and keep one's toes in one's stocking-feet! 1884Rowlett Technol. Framework Knitting ii. 342 Socks or half-hose. The feet are made in the same way as stocking feet.
b. As a purse or receptacle for money laid by. Chiefly fig.
1894‘H. Haliburton’ Furth in Field ii. 75 The cadger was just as eager to make the petty disbursement from his ‘stocking-foot’ or leather pouch. 1915J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War V. xl. 153 For them [i.e. the Treasury bonds] the peasant and the small tradesman brought out his store of gold from the stocking-foot.
c. (in, on) one's stocking feet: with only one's stockings on one's feet, without one's shoes.
1802R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. (1808) 13 Wully..in his clogs top teyme did beat; But Tamer, in her stockin feet, She bang'd him out and out. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. iii. iii. (1820) 178 Leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly on their stocking feet. 1854Thackeray Newcomes viii, Binnie found the Colonel..arrayed in what are called in Scotland his stocking-feet. 1858Trollope Dr. Thorne xii, In his stocking-feet..he was five feet five. 1901Theodora W. Wilson T' Bacca Queen xxvii. 247 Her husband was seated in stocking feet in the rocking-chair.
d. The loose or pendent part of a stocking-cap. rare—1.
1921D. H. Lawrence Sea & Sardinia v. 161 The old boy brings his stocking-foot over the left ear.
Hence stocking-footed, (-feeted) a., having stocking-feet; in stocking feet.
1926J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 99, I had a bay, white-faced, and stocking-footed horse called Buck. 1973Stocking-feeted [see leather-jacketed s.v. leather n. 5 d]. |