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ˈstock-ˌkeeper
†1. ? An official in charge of a stock or fund of money (with jocular allusion to the punishment of the stocks). Obs.
1589[Nashe] Pasquil's Return B iij b, The stocke-keeper of the Bridewel-house of Canterburie; he must carrie the purse, to defray their charges.
2. a. One who keeps cattle; a stock-farmer.
1912Times 19 Oct. 7/4 Stock-keepers on both sides of the Channel had begun to hope that the necessary period of quarantine for Irish cattle might soon be at an end.
b. Austral., etc. A herdsman or shepherd; = stockman 1.
1806Sydney Gaz. in O'Hara Hist. N.S. Wales (1817) 264 Anthony Size, stock-keeper at Prospect. 1821in E. Curr Van Diemen's Land (1824) 154 Prisoner servants employed..as stock keepers. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 37 Agricultural Labourer..Stock Keeper.
3. One who is in charge of the stock of a warehouse.
1902Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 9/6 (Advt.), Situation in a London warehouse..as checker, stockkeeper, or clerk.
So ˈstock-keep v., nonce-wd., to tend cattle, etc.; ˈstock-ˌkeeping vbl. n.
1844W. Wakefield in N.Z. Company Rep. (1845) xvii. 139 The sport of hunting them [sc. deer]..would afford a manly amusement to the young Colonists, fitting them for the more serious occupations of stock keeping and wool growing. 1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 30 Where..the farmer understands the business of stock-keeping and stock-feeding. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer x, [I can] drive bullocks, stock-keep, plough. 1907M. C. F. Morris Nunburnholme 252 Stock-keeping was but little understood. |