Definitions for stockers

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stockers stock·er

Spelling: [stok-er]

IPA: /ˈstɒk ər/

Stockers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in stockers (cekorsst).

Definitions for stockers

noun

1. a person or thing that stocks.
2. a young steer or heifer that is fed chiefly pasture or other roughage prior to more intensive feeding. Compare feeder (def 4).
3. Informal. stock car.
4. a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
5. a quantity of something accumulated, as for future use:
6. livestock.
7. Theater. a stock company:
8. Finance. the outstanding capital of a company or corporation. the shares of a particular company or corporation. the certificate of ownership of such stock; stock certificate. (formerly) a tally or stick used in transactions between a debtor and a creditor.
9. Horticulture. Also called understock. in grafting, a stem in which the bud or scion is inserted. a stem, tree, or plant that furnishes slips or cuttings; stock plant.
10. the trunk or main stem of a tree or other plant, as distinguished from roots and branches.
11. the type from which a group of animals or plants has been derived.
12. a species or other related group of animals or plants.
13. the person from whom a given line of descent is derived; the original progenitor.
14. a line of descent or lineage; a racial or ethnic group.
15. Linguistics. a category consisting of language families that, because of resemblances in grammatical structure and vocabulary, are considered likely to be related by common origin. Compare family (def 14), phylum (def 2).
16. any grouping of related languages.
17. the handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
18. Firearms. the wooden or metal piece to which the barrel and mechanism of a rifle are attached. a part of an automatic weapon, as a machine gun, similar in position or function.
19. the trunk or stump of a tree, left standing.
20. a dull or stupid person.
21. something lifeless or senseless.
22. the main upright part of anything, especially a supporting structure.
23. stocks. a former instrument of punishment consisting of a framework with holes for securing the ankles and, sometimes, the wrists, used to expose an offender to public derision. Compare pillory (def 1). a frame in which a horse or other animal is secured in a standing position for shoeing or for a veterinary operation. the frame on which a boat rests while under construction.
24. Nautical. a vertical shaft forming part of a rudder and controlling the rudder's movement. a transverse piece of wood or metal near the ring on some anchors.
25. the metal or wooden body of a carpenter's plane.
26. Metallurgy. material being smelted in a blast furnace. a metal piece to be forged.
27. Printing. a specified quality or kind of paper: the paper for printing a particular job:
28. the raw material from which something is made.
29. Papermaking. stuff (def 15).
30. Cookery. the liquor or broth prepared by boiling meat, fish, chicken, etc., with or without vegetables or seasonings, and used especially as a foundation for soups and sauces.
31. any of several plants belonging to the genus Matthiola, of the mustard family, especially M. incana, having fragrant white, blue, purple, reddish, or yellowish flowers.
32. a rhizome or rootstock.
33. Zoology. a compound organism, as a colony of corals.
34. a collar or a neckcloth fitting like a band around the neck.
35. Cards. the portion of a pack of cards that, in certain games, is not dealt out to the players, but is left on the table, to be drawn from as occasion requires.
36. an adjustable wrench for holding dies for cutting screws.
37. Railroads. rolling stock.
38. Dominoes. boneyard (def 3).
39. Informal. stock car (def 1).
40. Roman Catholic Church. one of a set of three metal containers for holy oil.
41. Geology, Mining. an irregular igneous intrusion, usually an offshoot of a batholith, often mineralized.
42. Archaic. a stocking.
43. Obsolete. the frame of a plow to which the share, handles, etc., are attached.

Idioms

1. in stock, on hand for use or sale:
2. lock, stock, and barrel. lock1 (def 30).
3. on the stocks, under construction, as especially a ship. in progress or preparation:
4. out of stock, lacking a supply of, especially temporarily:
5. take / put stock in, to put confidence in or attach importance to; believe; trust:
6. take stock, to make an inventory of stock on hand. to make an appraisal of resources or prospects:

adjective

1. kept regularly on hand, as for use or sale; staple; standard:
2. having as one's job the care of a concern's goods:
3. of the common or ordinary type; in common use:
4. banal; commonplace:
5. pertaining to or designating the breeding and raising of livestock:
6. Southern U.S. (chiefly Southern Appalachian and South Atlantic States) . (of farm animals) being a fully grown male:
7. of or relating to the stock of a company or corporation:
8. Theater. pertaining to a stock company. appearing together in a repertoire, as a company. forming part of a repertoire, as a play. being a character type fixed by convention, as in the commedia dell'-arte, a harlequinade, minstrel show, or the like.
9. Informal. of, relating to, or characteristic of a stock car.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a stock or supply.
2. to furnish with stock, as a farm with horses, cattle, etc.
3. to lay up in store, as for future use.
4. to fasten to or provide with a stock, as a rifle, plow, bell, anchor, etc.
5. to put in the stocks as a punishment.

verb (used without object)

1. to lay in a stock of something (often followed by up).

Origin of stockers

First recorded in 1635-45; stock + -er¹

Examples for stockers

"No, I will not have some coffee—especially in the open air," said Mrs. stocker.

stocker, the innkeeper, had nice-looking daughters, but they were all married.

"In my opinion there's a lot of ground wasted," said Mrs. stocker gloomily.

"My brother Daniel has surprised us all," said Mrs. stocker.

"A misfortune that has dogged him nearly all his life," snapped Mrs. stocker.

They set their watches by Mr. Whitehead's, which they afterwards returned; but took Mr. stocker's away with their other plunder.

Mrs. stocker held to her rights, and Mrs. Ewart-Crane went unwashed.

"An anxiety to the family at all times, sir," said Mr. stocker.

Colonel stocker come and got up a lot of hands and paid their way to Memphis on the train.

The barrel and lock next pass into the hands of the stocker.