stocking /stokˈing/

1. A close-fitting covering for the whole leg, usu made of fine knitted fabric, worn by women
2. A close-fitting covering for the foot and lower leg, made from knitted wool or similar fibre, as worn by men in Highland dress
3. Distinctive colouring or feathering of an animal's leg

stockˈinged adjective

Wearing stockings (but usu not shoes)

stockˈinger /-ing-ər/ noun

A maker of stockings

stockˈingless adjective

stocking cap noun

A conical knitted hat with a hanging tapering tail

stocking filler noun

A small present for a Christmas stocking

stockˈing-footˈ noun

The foot of a stocking

stocking frame noun

A knitting machine

stocking mask noun

A nylon stocking pulled over the head to distort and so disguise the features

stocking-soleˈ noun

stocking stitch noun

A style of knitting in which a row of plain stitch alternates with a row of purl

stocking stuffer noun (N American)

A stocking filler

in one's stocking-feet or -soles

With stockings or socks but no shoes

stock¹ /stok/

1. A fund
2. Capital of a company, divisible into shares, or a unit of ownership of a company, consisting of a group of shares
3. An individual share in a company (US)
4. Supply, store, equipment
5. Raw material, equipment, etc for use or in hand, as in rolling stock, film stock (unused film, etc)
6. A supply of goods, material or equipment for sale
7. The animals kept on a farm
8. Shares of a public debt
9. (in pl) public funds
10. A tally for money paid to the exchequer (obsolete)
11. A repertoire of plays done by a stock company (see below)
12. Repute, estimation (figurative)
13. The undealt part of a pack of cards or set of dominoes
14. Liquor from simmered meat, bones, etc used as a basis for soups, stews, etc
15. A trunk or main stem
16. The perennial part of a herbaceous plant
17. The rooted trunk that receives a graft, rootstock
18. A log
19. A post
20. A block
21. A stump
22. An upright beam
23. The wooden part of a gun
24. A handle
25. A part to which others are attached
26. Any cruciferous garden plant of the genus Matthiola having heavily scented spikes of flowers (see also Virginia stock under Virginia)
27. Anything fixed and solid
28. An intrusive boss (geology)
29. A stocking (archaic or dialect)
30. A stiff band worn as a cravat, often fastened with a buckle at the back
31. (in pl) a device for holding a delinquent by the ankles, and often wrists
32. (in pl) a framework on which a ship is built, keel blocks
33. The horizontal crosspiece of certain old types of anchor set at right angles to the arms
34. A box or trough
35. A fireside ledge (dialect)
36. The original progenitor
37. Source
38. Race
39. Kindred
40. Family

1. To store or supply with (goods, etc)
2. To keep (goods) in stock for sale
3. To put in the stocks
4. To fit (a gun) with a stock
5. To supply or furnish with stock (eg a river with fish)
6. To keep (a cow) unmilked before selling
7. To root up (trees, etc)
8. To stunt the growth of (a plant or animal) (dialect)

1. (of a plant) to send out new shoots
2. To take in or lay up a stock or supply (usu with up)
3. (of a plant or animal) to be stunted in growth (dialect)

1. Concerned with stock or stocks
2. Kept in stock
3. Conventionally used, standard
4. Banal, trite
5. Used for breeding purposes
6. Used or intended for livestock

stockˈer noun

1. An animal kept while being fattened or matured for slaughter (N American)
2. A person who stocks or makes stocks

stockˈist noun

A person who keeps a commodity in stock

stockˈless adjective

stock agent noun (Aust and NZ)

A dealer in livestock

stock appreciation noun (economics)

Business profit from increase in the value of goods held in stock

stockˈbreeder noun

A person who raises livestock

stockˈbreeding noun

stockˈbroker noun

A stock exchange member who buys and sells stocks or shares for clients, having been officially superseded in the British Stock Exchange, on 27 October 1986, by the broker/dealer, combining the jobs of stockbroker and stockjobber (stockbroker belt the area outside a city, esp that to the south of London, in which wealthy businessmen live)

stockˈbroking noun

stock car noun

1. A specially adapted and strengthened ordinary saloon car used for a type of racing (stock car racing) in which cars are often damaged or destroyed in collisions
2. A cattle-truck (N American)

stock company noun (N American)

1. A joint-stock company
2. A permanent repertory company attached to a theatre

stock cube noun

A cube of compressed meat, fish or vegetable extract used for making stock

stock dove noun

A dove (Columba oenas), like a small wood pigeon (so called from its habit of nesting in tree stumps or rabbit burrows, or from the erroneous supposition that it represents the ancestor of the domestic breeds)

stock exchange noun

1. A place for the buying and selling of stocks and shares
2. An association of people transacting such business
3. (with caps) the institution in London where such business is done

stock farm noun

A farm specializing in the rearing of livestock

stockˈ-farmer noun

A farmer who rears livestock

stockˈ-feeder noun

A person who fattens livestock

stock-gillˈyflower noun

An old name for the garden flower, stock

stockˈholder noun

1. Someone who holds stocks in the public funds, or in a company
2. A person who owns livestock (Aust)

stockˈhorse noun (Aust)

A horse trained for working with sheep and cattle

stockˈ-in-trade noun

1. All the goods a shopkeeper has for sale
2. Standard equipment or devices necessary for a particular trade or profession
3. A person's basic intellectual and emotional resources (often implying inadequacy or triteness)

stockˈjobber noun

1. A stock exchange member who deals only with other members (in some special group of securities), this job having been abolished in the British Stock Exchange on 27 October 1986, with the introduction of the job of broker/dealer, combining the jobs of stockbroker and stockjobber
2. A stockbroker (US)
3. An unscrupulous speculator

stockˈjobbery noun

stockˈjobbing noun

stockˈlist noun

A list of stocks and current prices regularly issued

stockˈlock noun

A lock with wooden case

stockˈman noun

1. A man in charge of livestock (esp Aust)
2. A storeman (US)

stock market noun

1. A stock exchange
2. Stock exchange business

stockˈpile noun

An accumulated reserve supply (also transitive verb)

stockˈpiling noun

Accumulating reserves, eg of raw materials

stockˈpot noun

A pot in which stock for soup is made and kept

stockˈpunisht adjective (Shakespeare)

Put in the stocks

stockˈ-raising noun

Breeding of stock

stock rider noun (Aust)

A herdsman on horseback

stockˈroom noun

1. A storeroom
2. A room in a hotel for the display of commercial travellers' wares

stock route noun (Aust and NZ)

A right of way for travelling stock

stock saddle noun

A type of saddle with a high pommel and low curved seat, as orig used by American cowboys

stock-stillˈ adjective and adverb

Utterly still (as a post or log)

stockˈtake noun

An act of stocktaking (also intransitive verb)

stockˈtaking noun

Inventorying and valuation of stock (also figurative)

stock whip noun

A herdsman's whip with short handle and long lash

stockˈyard noun

A large yard with pens, stables, etc, where cattle are kept for slaughter, market, etc

in (or out of) stock

Available (or not available) for sale

on the stocks

In preparation but unfinished

put or take stock in

To trust to, attach importance to

stockbrokers' Tudor (architecture)

Imitation Tudor

stocks and stones

Inanimate idols

take stock (of)

1. To make an inventory of goods on hand
2. To make an estimate of

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