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ˈnetherstock Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 6–7 neather-, 6 neither-.
[f. nether a. + stock.]
A stocking.
1565–6Roy. Proclam. Apparel 12 Feb., Any maner of sylke neatherstockes of Hosen. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 220 A plaine pair of cloth-breeches..of white kersie.., the nether-stocke of the same. 1607–8Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) II. 2 My best over hoose and my best netherstockes. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 436 Neither did they commonly wear breeches without netherstocks or slops.
1821Scott Kenilw. xix, A dispute upon the preference due to the Spanish nether-stock over the black Gascoigne hose. 1863Sala Captain Dangerous I. vi. 170 A plain black shag gown untrimmed, with camlet netherstocks.
transf.1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 11 When a man [is] ouer⁓lustie at legs, then he weares wodden nether-stocks.
So † nether-stocking. Obs. rare—1.
1591Florio 2nd Fruites 7 Foure payre of breeches, fiue of nether-stockins. |