stockern.
/ˈstɒkə/, U.S. /ˈstɑkər/ 1. A workman who makes or fits stocks, esp. gun-stocks.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > armourer > [noun] > one who makes artillery or firearms > specific parts
stock-maker1579
stocker1641
matchmaker1643
barrel-forger1720
gun-lock maker1814
actioner1881
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of part of finished article > maker or fitter of handles or stocks
hafter1598
handler1598
stocker1641
stouker1809
tanger1921
1641 Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 562/2 Stockeres of Gunes.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 249 The stocker upon receiving the stock first roughs it into shape.
1886 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 7/5 Gun Maker. Wanted a stocker and screwer.
1892 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Stocker, a man engaged in making stock-locks.
2. A workman employed in felling or grubbing up trees. local.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman
wood-hewerc1000
wooderc1050
hagger1294
wood-hagger1294
feller1422
woodman1426
faller1614
wood-maker1616
forest-feller1618
axeman1671
holt-felstera1678
stocker1686
bayman1715
logger1734
wood-cutter1758
lumberer1809
lumbermana1817
shantyman1824
chopper1827
splitter1841
bushman1846
mahogany cutter1850
piner1871
bush-faller1882
lumberjack1888
bushwhacker1898
home guard1903
Jack1910
gyppo1912
timber-getter1912
timberjack1916
timber beast1919
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vi. 211 Under the hands of..Francis Marshall, Thomas March, Stockers.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Stockers, men employed to clear out the butt of a tree ready for felling.
3. local. (See quot. 1879.)
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1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Stocker, an implement used for ‘stocking’ up turnips; it has two prongs and a handle four feet long.
4. U.S. and Canadian. An animal, esp. a young steer or heifer, sold to be finally butchered, but kept as stock until matured or fattened; distinguished from killer. (W. 1911.)
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > fatted animal (for slaughter) > young
fatling1526
stocker1881
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > calf > [noun] > for slaughter
veal1422
veal calf?1556
staggering bob1780
stocker1881
killer1897
vealer1901
bobby calf1927
1881 Chicago Times 1 June Stockers and feeders were dull and weaker.
1891 Daily News 2 July 6/4 Animals for fattening known as stockers.
1891 Times 1 Oct. 9/4 The bulk of the Canadians were only stockers.
5. dialect. Fish of other kinds taken when fishing for herring or pilchards ( Eng. Dial. Dict.); a sum of money accruing to a member of the crew as his share in this. Also attributive as stocker-bait.
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > profit to be shared > share of profits > of fishing or whaling expedition
lay1850
voyage1859
liver money1897
stocker1904
1883 W. C. Russell Sailors' Lang. Stocker-bait, small fish given by smack-owners to their apprentices to sell for their own profit.
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 776/2 [Cornwall] We get some mackerel and pollock in the pilchard nets or the herring nets. That goes for what we call ‘stocker’. The crew divides that.
1914 Times 14 July Stocker is explained as being money received from the sale of tails of a fish called the monk, roes, shell-fish, &c.
1914 Times 14 July They took the stocker, they sold it, and they handed the proceeds to some member of the crew for division between himself and the other members entitled to it.
6. A warehouseman or stock-keeper; also (U.S.), an assistant engaged to look after stock held for sale by a business firm.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [noun] > in warehouse or store
warehouseman1635
warehouse-keeper1683
storeman1885
stock-keeper1902
stocker1921
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §940 Stock keeper, stocker, a warehouseman..who keeps stock book showing amount of stock (as distinguished from stores).
1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 27 June 5- e/4 At age 14 or 15, cashiers, salesmen, stockers, baggers, gas pumpers, car washers,..can work.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. (Advt. section) 5/10 Full time person to work in our yard as salesperson and stocker.
7. U.S. colloquial. A stock-car; a stock-car racer.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > driver of other types of motor vehicle
vanner1893
hot rod1943
hot rodder1947
stroker1948
low rider1966
stocker1976
gas-guzzler1977
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > racing car based on ordinary model
stock-car1914
superstock1919
stock1951
modified1974
stocker1976
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > driver
road racer1885
racing driver1903
racing motorist1904
speed king1913
stock-car driver1955
privateer1969
stock-car racer1976
stocker1976
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motor racing > [noun] > racing car
racing car1901
scratch-car1908
stock-car1914
stocker1976
1976 Harper's Mag. Jan. 20 You simply can't believe the noise of these engines. Stockers, motorcycles, needlenosed dragsters,..tear the night apart for hours.
1976 Time 27 Sept. 82/3 Stock cars... Richard Petty, king of the stockers, won $378,865 last year.
1978 Time 25 Sept. 88 Members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing..rolled up to the ‘diplomatic entrance’ in their Day-Glo colored ‘stockers’.
Draft additions 1993
8. U.S. colloquial. A ‘stock’ component or vehicle (i.e. as regularly manufactured and held in stock, not customized).
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > any separate part > stock components
stocker1971
1971 Choppers Mag. Nov. 27 (heading) Chops are safer than stockers.
1974 Motorcross Action Mag. June 40/3 That solution doesn't do the owner of a stocker any good, since adding gears is not exactly known as privateer technology.
1980 Dirt Bike Oct. 36/3 Rex Staten put the gearbox failures in the proper light when he told us that he raced his practice stocker for most of the year without problems.
1988 Super MotoCross Sept.–Oct. 53/1 The carburetor is a stocker modified to incorporate a true choke circuit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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