'Stocking' definitions:
Definition of 'stocking'
(from WordNet)
noun
Close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
noun
The activity of supplying a stock of something; "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout"
Definition of 'Stocking'
From: GCIDE
- Stock \Stock\ (st[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked (st[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
- 1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To put in the stocks. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stocking'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
- 1. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking[1]; as: (a) 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. (b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.
- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stocking'
From: GCIDE
- Stocking \Stock"ing\, v. t. To dress in GBs. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Stocking'
- Stock,
- Stocked,
- To stock down,
- To stock up,
- in stock,
- out of stock,
- stock up,
- stocked stocked with,
- stocked with,
- stocks,
- Bit stock,
- Blue stocking,
- Capital stock,
- Dead stock,
- Debenture stock,
- Dimension stock,
- Fancy stocks,
- Germ stock,
- Granger stocks,
- Head stock,
- Joint stock,
- Laced stocking,
- Live stock,
- Malcolm stock,
- Paper stock,
- Preferred stock,
- Pump stock,
- Rolling stock,
- Scouring stock,
- Stock Island,
- Stock account,
- Stock broker,
- Stock car,
- Stock company,
- Stock duck,
- Stock exchange,
- Stock farmer,
- Stock gillyflower,
- Stock gold,
- Stock in trade,
- Stock list,
- Stock lock,
- Stock market,
- Stock pigeon,
- Stock purse,
- Stock shave,
- Stock station,
- Stock tackle,
- Stock taking,
- Stock ticker,
- Stocking frame,
- Tail stock,
- To have something on the stock,
- To list a stock,
- To stock an anchor,
- To stock cards,
- To take stock,
- To take stock in,
- To take stock of,
- To water stock,
- Treasury stock,
- Trustee stock,
- Virginia stock,
- authorized stock,
- beef stock,
- body stocking,
- brompton stock,
- chicken stock,
- christmas stocking,
- classified stock,
- common stock,
- control stock,
- growth stock,
- hot stock,
- letter stock,
- mahon stock,
- nylon stocking,
- otc stock,
- over the counter stock,
- penny stock,
- preference stock,
- preferential stock,
- quarter stock,
- rayon stocking,
- reacquired stock,
- seed stock,
- silk stocking,
- stock breeder,
- stock buyback,
- stock certificate,
- stock cube,
- stock dividend,
- stock index,
- stock issue,
- stock of record,
- stock option,
- stock power,
- stock raiser,
- stock room,
- stock saddle,
- stock split,
- stock still,
- stock symbol,
- stock trader,
- stock warrant,
- stock whaup,
- stocking cap,
- stocking filler,
- stocking stuffer,
- stocks and bonds,
- summer stock,
- support stocking,
- take stock,
- unlisted stock,
- virginian stock,
- voting stock,
- watered stock,
- Silk-stocking,
- Stock Island, FL,
- Stock-blind,
- Stock-still,
- Tool-stock,
- american stock exchange,
- common stock equivalent,
- cumulative preferred stock,
- giant stock bean,
- incentive stock option,
- no-par stock,
- reverse stock split,
- stock market index,
- stock purchase plan,
- stock-in-trade,
- stock-take,
- stock-taker,
- stock-taking,
- Joint-stock company,
- blue-chip stock,
- employee stock ownership plan,
- n. y. stock exchange,
- new york stock exchange,
- no-par-value stock,
- stock-index futures,
- stock-purchase warrant,
- technical analysis of stock trends,
- frozenpredicate rootedpredicate stock-still