Definitions for stocking

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IPA: /ˈstɒk ɪŋ/

Stocking is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 259 anagrams from letters in stocking (cgiknost).

Definitions for stocking

noun

1. a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
2. something resembling such a covering.
3. a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
4. a quantity of something accumulated, as for future use:
5. livestock.
6. Theater. a stock company:
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. the trunk or main stem of a tree or other plant, as distinguished from roots and branches.
10. the type from which a group of animals or plants has been derived.
11. a species or other related group of animals or plants.
12. the person from whom a given line of descent is derived; the original progenitor.
13. a line of descent or lineage; a racial or ethnic group.
14. 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).
15. any grouping of related languages.
16. the handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
17. 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.
18. the trunk or stump of a tree, left standing.
19. a dull or stupid person.
20. something lifeless or senseless.
21. the main upright part of anything, especially a supporting structure.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. the metal or wooden body of a carpenter's plane.
25. Metallurgy. material being smelted in a blast furnace. a metal piece to be forged.
26. Printing. a specified quality or kind of paper: the paper for printing a particular job:
27. the raw material from which something is made.
28. Papermaking. stuff (def 15).
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. a rhizome or rootstock.
32. Zoology. a compound organism, as a colony of corals.
33. a collar or a neckcloth fitting like a band around the neck.
34. 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.
35. an adjustable wrench for holding dies for cutting screws.
36. Railroads. rolling stock.
37. Dominoes. boneyard (def 3).
38. Informal. stock car (def 1).
39. Roman Catholic Church. one of a set of three metal containers for holy oil.
40. Geology, Mining. an irregular igneous intrusion, usually an offshoot of a batholith, often mineralized.
41. Archaic. a stocking.
42. Obsolete. the frame of a plow to which the share, handles, etc., are attached.

Idioms

1. in one's stocking feet, wearing stockings, but without shoes:
2. in stock, on hand for use or sale:
3. lock, stock, and barrel. lock1 (def 30).
4. on the stocks, under construction, as especially a ship. in progress or preparation:
5. out of stock, lacking a supply of, especially temporarily:
6. take / put stock in, to put confidence in or attach importance to; believe; trust:
7. 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 stocking

First recorded in 1575-85; stock + -ing¹

Examples for stocking

He bent over her and carefully restored her stocking and shoe.

Then he showed me how he could move in his stocking feet and no one could hear him.

So then Fluffy went for a walk with the other dolls, but I had to darn a hole in my stocking.

He must have hooked his missus's stocking with all the savings gained at very hard work.

You'd take a stocking and cut a hole for your eyes and wear it over your head.

It will not prevent you from wearing your shoe and stocking.

Now, just a few years later, the ghosts are stocking the cabinet.

Nobody wants coal in their stocking, but what about their stomach?

Looking for a stocking stuffer for someone who loves both crayons and conservatism?

A stocking stuffed with $324,000 in easily negotiable $20 bills weighs 132 pounds.