stockingn.1
/ˈstɒkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɑkɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action or process of fixing (a bell) to its stock, or furnishing (a gun) with a stock.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > furnishing with stock
stocking1450
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > [noun] > fitting bell
stocking1450
clappering1526
quarter-turning1901
1450 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 240 Et Joh'i Cales pro le stokkynge unius campane ad eccl. predictam, 4d.
1546 in Acts Privy Council (1890) I. 423 Item; a warraunte..for xx markes in preste to the saide Mr. Darcy for the stocking of gonnes and other thinges there.
1588–9 in F. N. A. Garry & A. G. Garry Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary's, Reading (1893) 68 Item for the newe stokinge of the Bels, ij s. vj d.
1703 in J. Watson's Jedburgh Abbey (1894) 91 A collection at the kirk door for payment of the little bell's casting, stocking, and other expenses.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 99 For the Stock and new stocking Muskets and Carbines..10s. 6d.
b. The parts forming the stock of a gun.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > stock or shaft
tiller1353
gun-stock1495
stocking1532
stock1541
buttstock1866
1532 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 156 To tua pynouris that tursit the gunnis to the stokkin in the castell.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 395 From imperfections in the stocking of the gun.
1870 Athenæum 8 Oct. 471/1 Faults..in..the lever, the stocking, and the ammunition [of the Martini-Henry rifle].
2.
a. The uprooting of trees or plants. Also with up. Also in plural (see quot. 1851).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land
ridding1347
grubbingc1440
stubbing1445
stockingc1460
assart1534
clotting1601
extirpation1607
shrubbing1611
moling1617
averruncation1656
twitching1799
underbrushing1838
clearance1851
screefing1919
reslashing1934
underscrubbing1935
swidden1955
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xiii. 141 As it now well apperith be the new husbondry þat is done þer..in grobbyng and stokkyng off treis [etc.]
a1535Stocking-iron [see stocking-iron n. at Compounds 2]. 1613 A. Standish New Direct. 3 It were very conuenient, that the stocking vp of Woods were preuented,..for..within a very few years there wil be little or no wood left for any vse, the stocking & stubbing is so great.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 363 The Felling and Stocking up of Trees.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. Stockins, land reclaimed from the woods.
b. (See quot. 1611.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > pruning or lopping
shreddingc1000
putation?1440
snathing1485
loppingc1511
brushing1513
topping1513
twisting1535
pruning1548
heading1552
browsing1574
lop1575
disbranching1600
debranching1601
stocking1611
stowing1618
polling1626
supputation1656
summer pruning1669
snedding1720
shrouding1725
pollarding1794
thinning1800
brashing1950
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tronquement, a trunking, stocking, or cutting off.
3.
a. The action of supplying with a stock or store; the furnishing (a farm) with cattle and implements or (a garden) with plants; also, keeping in stock.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farm-stock > stocking of farm
stocking1663
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > action of providing or supplying > action of stocking with anything
stocking1663
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > stocking with plants
stocking1663
1663 Act 15 Chas. II c. 1 §15 All..Implements of Husbandry, and all other things whatsoever, imployed in the Husbanding Stocking and Manureing of their..Lands.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 7 So long as it [migration] was confined to the stocking and cultivation of desart uninhabited countries, it kept strictly within the limits of the law of nature.
1813 W. Scott Let. 23 Mar. (1932) III. 240 I have been here for some days directing..the stocking of a garden.
1858 National Rev. Oct. 344 The natural pursuits of men make..a complete stocking of the mind more..necessarily a duty with them than with women.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 89 The only chance of rearing good lambs in such cases, lies in thin stocking, and giving a liberal supply of dry nourishing food.
1892 Daily News 5 Sept. 7/1 So far as the house coal trade is concerned,..there is no reason for taking a despondent view... Winter stocking will soon set in in earnest.
b. concrete. The cattle, farm implements, etc. as distinguished from the crops of a farm.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farm-stock
stock1519
steelbow1532
strength1594
farm stock1680
stockinga1732
farming stock1749
dead stock1836
a1732 T. Boston View this & Other World (1775) v. 247 Abraham was rich in silver and gold, and Job in stocking.
1765 Pet. in Walker v. Spence 5 He had neither servants nor stocking proper for his farm.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xii. 194 And the furniture and stocking is to be roupit at the same time on the ground.
1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage I. xi. 120 I shall advance you stocking and stedding.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/1 The stocking of a farm is the crop, cattle, and implements.
4. (See quot. 1847 and cf. stock v.1 18.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > leaving unmilked
stocking1847
1847 R. T. Evanson & H. Maunsell Managem. Children (ed. 5) 50 (note) Nurses who have not a good supply of milk will, occasionally, be found to adopt a practice commonly employed with milch cows when brought to market, and called by the cattle dealers, stocking; that is, they allow the milk to accumulate in their breasts.
5. Detention in the stocks.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks
stockinga1535
pillorization1688
pillorying?1705
pillorizing1720
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xx. sig. S.ii That strayte kepynge, collerynge, boltynge, and stockynge,..which..is vsed in these speciall priesonmentes.
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1528/1 Then began they to threaten hym with whyppyng, stockynge, burnynge, and suche lyke.
1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants ii. 220 Whence comes..Beatings, Bruisings, Stockings, Whippings, and Spilling of Blood for Religion?
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iii. 80 Such idle suitors are to be..punished for their audacity with stripes, stocking, or incarceration.
6. Treatment in the stocks of a fulling mill or tannery.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > converting to leather
tawing1408
barkingc1440
tewc1440
tanneryc1460
tanning1481
tannage1662
bark-tanning1707
leach1779
sumaching1792
chrome-tanning1882
stocking1883
sumac tanning1932
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 367/1 After..the drench, the skins are..removed..to the stocks, where they are beaten..with heavy tilt-hammers. When soft, oil..is sprinkled on them, and the ‘stocking’ is continued.
7. slang. (See stock v.1 23.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [noun] > methods of
palm1664
high game1665
palming1671
slick1674
brief1680
gammoning1700
shoulder-dash1711
bridge1773
weaving1803
bridging1843
palmistry1859
slipping1864
stocking1887
big mitt1903
1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 228 A tender~foot got in amongst the gamblers on board..and what with ‘strippers’, and ‘stocking’, and ‘cold decks’,..he hadn't the ghost of a chance.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. (In sense 1.)
stocking-room n.
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1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. v. 106 The stocking-room [for guns] is fitted with..the tools usually found in a cabinet maker's shop.
C2. (In sense 2.)† stocking-iron n. Obsolete
stocking-hoe n.
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1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 281 Some used stocking-hoes and grubbed the ground 5 inches deep.
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a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xv. sig. Q.iiiiv He causeth like a good husband man his folke to come afield,..and with their hookes & their stocking yrons, grubbe vp these wicked wedes & busshes of our earthly substance.
C3. (In sense 3.)
stocking plant n.
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1849 Florist 199 Those who are desirous of having stocking plants [of pelargoniums] must cut their specimens down boldly.
stocking-pot n.
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1840 Florist's Jrnl. Oct. 153 The plants..were raised from cuttings put into stocking-pots.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stockingn.2
/ˈstɒkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɑkɪŋ/ 1. Proverbial, etc.1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 18 Nurse. Pray Heav'n send your Worship good Luck..for you have put on one Stocking with the wrong side outward.1739 J. Byrom Let. 13 Feb. in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1856) II. i. 223 The chief fault it had was that of King Stephen's stockings, the costing too little price.† b. ? A kind of legging or long boot, a ‘boot-hose’ or ‘boot-stocking’. Obsolete.
a. A close-fitting garment covering the foot, the leg, and often the knee, usually made of knitted or woven wool, silk, or cotton; now spec. as a woman's usually diaphanous leg-covering (esp. of silk or nylon) reaching to the thigh. Chiefly plural.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking
hose1297
stock1456
netherstock1535
shanka1547
undersock1556
nether-stocking1581
stocking1583
shinner1585
stockard1597
vamper1699
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F5v Othersome buy cloakes,..caps, coates, stockings, & the like.
1586 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 76 Mony for a pr of stokyngs.
1593 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 195 My best under stockinges.
1603 By-law Fraternity Eastland Co. of Soc. Eng. Russia Merchant-adventurers 10 Nov. in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) II. 231 [Not] to weare..worsted or Jersey stockings.
1607 E. Howes Stow's Chron. (new ed.) 477 This yeare 1589 was diuised and perfected the Art of knitting or weauing of silke stockings,..and diuerse other things by engines or steele Loomes by William Lee.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. iii. 30 Renouncing cleane The faith they haue in Tennis and tall Stockings, Short blistred Breeches. View more context for this quotation
a1686 J. Turner Mem. (1829) 59 Riseing nixt morning, I misd one linnen stockine, one halfe silke one and one boothose, the accoustrement under a boote for one leg.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3269/4 [Stolen] out of a Bag, half a dozen pair of Roll Stockins, and 18 pair of short Stockins.
1786 R. Burns Poems 196 On Fasteneen we had a rockin, To ca' the crack and weave our stockin.
1812 2nd Rep. Comm. Framework-Knitters 93 Socks..are half-stockings, or rather what is called pantaloon stockings.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 78 I hurriedly pulled on my stockings, buttoned my boots,..and started out.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > legging and boot combined
cockerc1390
gambado1625
gambages1663
stocking1676
trench boot1914
1676 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 344 To Mr. Prince for a pair of riding leather stockings, 5s.
2. A stocking used
a. as a purse or receptacle for storing one's money; hence, a store of money; also with qualifying word, as big stocking, fat stocking, long stocking.
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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money-bag, -purse, or -belt > [noun] > stocking used as
hoggerc1725
moggan1842
stocking1873
sock1930
1873 A. G. Murdoch Lilts on Doric Lyre 90 He wi' him had brocht A stocking weel padded wi' siller.
1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie iii. 57 She had a ‘stocking’ gathered to meet the wants of an evil day.
1899 G. Ford 'Postle Farm xxxvii. 192 Granfer's got money laid by in a stockin' up the chimney.
1903 J. S. Farmer Slang (at cited word) Long-stocking (common), means in plenty; resources.
b. as a receptacle for the presents supposed by children to be deposited in it by ‘Father Christmas’ (or, in U.S., by Santa Claus) on Christmas eve.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift at Christmas or New Year > at Christmas > Christmas stocking
stocking1854
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > stocking
stocking1854
1854 ‘E. Wetherell’ & ‘A. Lothrop’ Carl Krinken: Christmas Stocking 3 Little Carl always hung up his stocking, and generally had it filled.
1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 15/2 The saint who generously filled the Christmas stocking.
3.
a. A surgical appliance resembling a stocking. elastic stocking, a covering of elastic webbing worn as a remedial support for the leg, esp. when affected with varicose veins.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical garments > [noun] > stockings
stocking1876
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. ii. ii. 170 In stead of a Rowler I put on a laced Stocking.]
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xi. 480 When exercise is allowed steady pressure by a well-applied bandage..should be maintained, or an elastic stocking worn.
b. A bandage for the leg of a horse.
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the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [noun] > medicines or applications > medicines or applications for horses > boot or stocking
splint-boot1862
poultice boot1875
stocking1875
poultice-shoe1888
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stocking…(Farriery.) A device for remedying injuries to the tendons, varicose veins, etc., occurring in the lower part of a horse's leg.
1894 [implied in: G. A. Sala London up to Date 349 Those three slender quadrupeds, all stockinged and hooded..which are being carefully conducted to a horse-box. (at stockinged adj. 1)].
4. transferred. Applied to the surface or coat of the leg (or the lower part of it) of a bird or beast, when of different colour from the body.
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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > coloured leg
stocking1821
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. xv. 296 ‘And what didst thou learn there, forward imp?’ ‘To catch gulls, with their webbed feet and yellow stockings,’ said the boy.
1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock ii. 37 He was a very handsome rich bay, with a white stocking on his off hind leg.
1879 L. Wright Pract. Pigeon Keeper 124 The Beard [kind of pigeon] is usually only white at the ends of the thighs, or the ‘stockings’.
1893 R. Lydekker Horns & Hoofs 11 The absence of white ‘stockings’ as a distinctive feature of most of our domestic breeds [of cattle].
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 33 When the white hair extends just above the fetlock it is sometimes called a sock, and when much higher a stocking or leg.
5. Phrases.
a. to stand (a specified height) in one's stockings, i.e. without one's shoes. Cf. stocking-foot n. 3.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > [verb (intransitive)]
to be more, lower by the shouldersa1300
stand1797
to stand (a specified height) in one's stockings1853
1853 F. E. Smedley Harry Coverdale's Courtship i, in Sharpe's London Mag. July 1/1 Harry Coverdale stood six feet one in or out of his stockings.
1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 166/1 He stands over seven feet in his stockings.
b. to throw the stocking: said with reference to an old custom according to which on the wedding night the bride's stocking was thrown among the guests; it was supposed that the person hit by it would be the first of the company to be married.For other forms of this custom see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > celebrate wedding [verb (intransitive)] > take part in specific custom
to throw the stocking1694
1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 509/1 The Stockin being motioned, the Bride must sit up to have it thrown at her Nose, that the Batchellours may know by him that first hits it, who is to be marryed next.
1709 W. King Useful Trans. in Philos. Mar.–Apr. 12 The Sack-Posset was eaten and the Stocking thrown.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 148 At am'rous Flavio is the Stocking thrown?
1805 R. Anderson Ballads in Cumberland Dial. 13 The breyde now thowt it time for bed; Her stockin doff'd and flang't quite soft.
a1845 R. H. Barham Wedding-day in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 214 They all come..To dance at her bridal, and help ‘throw the stocking,’—A practice that's now discontinued as shocking.
6. = stocking-web n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > made by specific method of weaving
footwork1568
set1780
stocking1812
reed1823
stocking-web1843
handloom1867
terry1879
Hardanger1904
ikat1931
rip-stop1945
1812 Rep. Committee Framework Knitters Petit. 18 There are goods made up into a large piece of stocking, and cut out, instead of being properly shaped on the stocking frame.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Simple attributive.
stocking-heel n.
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1888 R. Kipling Story of Gadsbys 1 (stage direct.) Spreads stocking-heel on open hand for inspection.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. vii. 90 I declare there's a hole in my stocking-heel!
stocking-manufactory n.
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1812 1st Rep. Comm. Framework-Knitters App. 48 Are you acquainted with the stocking manufactory in general?
stocking-manufacture n.
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1765 Par. Reg. Calverton in Felton Hist. Machine-wrought Hosiery (1867) 30 The Stocking manufacture very bad last year and this.
stocking thread n.
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1833 J. Rennie Alphabet Sci. Angling 37 These water blood-worms..are not much thicker than a stocking thread.
stocking-trade n.
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1819 Rep. Sel. Comm. Framework-Knitters 10 The number now employed in the stocking trade in Leicester.
C2. quasi-adj. With the meaning ‘made with the stocking-stitch, knitted, made of stockinet’.
stocking cloth n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > knitted > knitted in specific way
plain1655
stockinet1824
handknit1840
stocking cloth1880
lock knit1926
jersey1938
fisherman's knit1960
Aran1962
flat-knit1963
string1964
1880 Cassell's Family Mag. VI. 311/1 Bège tricot, woven as closely as possible to resemble stocking-cloth.
stocking knitwork n.
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1804 Brit. Patent 2755 (1856) 2 Stocking knitwork.
stocking material n.
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1880 Mrs. L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Exam. Needlework 55 Pieces of stocking material (coarse) for darning.
stocking night-cap n.
stocking-piece n.
stocking stuff n.
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1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. i. 15 [He] wore the trews,..wove out of a sort of chequered stocking stuff.
stocking-web n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven > made by specific method of weaving
footwork1568
set1780
stocking1812
reed1823
stocking-web1843
handloom1867
terry1879
Hardanger1904
ikat1931
rip-stop1945
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 180/2 One continuous thread forms both warp and weft, if we may apply these terms to the stocking-web.
1884 Cassell's Family Mag. Feb. 185/2 The stocking-web jackets..fit the figure quite closely.
C3.
stocking-net n. (rarely†knit; also attributive) see quot. 1884 and cf. stockinet n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > knitted fabric > types of > elastic or stretch
stocking-net1804
stockinet1824
powernet1938
1804 Brit. Patent 2755 (1856) 2 A method of double seaming and uniting the inside of stocking network.
1832 Patent in Newton's London Jrnl. (1838) XII. 275 Machinery..for making or manufacturing stockings, stocking-net, or framework knitting.
1884 W. T. Rowlett tr. G. Willkomm Technol. Framework Knitting i. 101 Stocking Net, i.e. plain framework made from woollen yarn on circular frames... Of late years this has largely come into use for ladies' jersies.
C4. Objective.
stocking-darning n.
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1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ix. 74 Mrs. Squeers being engaged in the matronly pursuit of stocking-darning.
stocking-knitter n.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Stocking The Company of Stocking-knitters establish'd at Paris in 1527, took for their Patron St. Fiacre.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §374 Stocking knitter,..a frame hand..who attends a power-driven frame adjusted to knit elastic hosiery.
stocking-knitting n.
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1829 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian Introd., in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 143 She..knit feet to country-people's stockings, which bears about the same relation to stocking-knitting that cobbling does to shoe-making.
stocking-maker n.
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1619 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Starr of Cranbrook, stocken~maker.
1779 in J. R. Anderson Burgesses of Glasgow (1935) 117 Wilson, Gabriel, stocking-maker.
1812 J. Melish Trav. in U.S.A. II. 55 Professions exercised in Pittsburg:..stocking-makers, taylors, printers, book-binders.
stocking-making n.
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1812 1st Rep. Comm. Framework-Knitters App. 44 There are four descriptions of persons concerned in the stocking-making business.
a1876 M. Collins Pen Sketches (1879) I. 149 Avoiding the dreary stocking-making town of Shepton Mallet.
stocking-manufacturer n.
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1793 Matthews's New Bristol Directory 1793–4 11 Bailey, Henry, Stocking-manufacturer.
stocking-mender n.
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1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 249 [They will] steale out a signe ouer a Coblers stall, lyke Aqua vitæ sellers and stocking menders.
stocking-presser n.
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1686 London Gaz. No. 2166/4 Mr. Edward Bonsaw, Stocking-Presser.
stocking-seller n.
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1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. i. sig. Dv He beates a Tayler very well, but a Stocking-seller admirably. View more context for this quotation
C5. Special combinations. Also stocking-foot n., stocking-frame n.† stocking man n. Obsolete a stocking-maker.
stocking bar n. a counter or bar in a shop at which stockings are sold.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-fittings > counter > type of counter
trade counter1856
bargain counter1888
gondola1942
serve-over1950
stocking bar1962
1962 Guardian 23 Feb. 8/3 The idea of a stocking bar came from America eight years ago.
1965 Harper's Bazaar May 27 The..stocking bar.
stocking board n. a board upon which stockings when wet are stretched and dried to shape.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > board for stretching and drying to shape
stocking board1862
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxvii. §5025 Glove and gauntlet trees and stocking boards.
stocking cap n. a knitted woollen hat with a long tapered end which hangs down from the crown.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen > knitted
tuque1871
toque1890
stocking cap1902
1902 Daily Chron. 14 Feb. 7/5 The captain offered him a stocking-cap, and he objected to wear it.
1978 Times 4 Mar. 22/5 The fishermen still wear their shirts and trousers of Portuguese tartan and long black stocking caps.
stocking filler n. a small present suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking; also figurative.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift at Christmas or New Year > at Christmas
Christmas present1663
Christmas gift1751
Christmas box1885
stocking filler1959
stocking stuffer1976
1959 Listener 10 Dec. 1054/1 A useful stocking-filler at 2s. is a gardener's measuring beaker, graduated for almost all fertilizers, insecticides, etc.
1973 Radio Times 20 Dec. 3 How's this for a stocking-filler? Radio Times has a complete Christmas package for you.
1979 M. Babson Twelve Deaths of Christmas xx. 109 Just tiny bits and pieces. Stocking fillers, small tokens.
stocking leg n. that part of a stocking which covers the leg; also as a receptacle for money (see 2 above).
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1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 225 I've..A stockin' leg weel crammed, I trow, Wi' glancin' gowd sae yelly.
stocking legger n. ? one whose occupation was the seaming of stocking-legs.
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1727 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 10 Feb. 2 Thomas Herbert, jun. of London, Stocking-legger.
stocking loom n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > knitting machine
stocking-frame1710
stocking loom1715
stocking machine1843
ribber1877
knitter1890
raschel1926
1715 A. Hill Acc. Beech-Oil Inv. 12 And thus the ingenious Stocking Loom..was first invented.
stocking machine n. = stocking-frame n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > knitting machine
stocking-frame1710
stocking loom1715
stocking machine1843
ribber1877
knitter1890
raschel1926
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 180/1 A singular confusion pervades the early history of the stocking-machine.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making hosiery > one who
hosierc1440
stocking man1622
clocker1898
1622 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 346 Stocking-men, haberdashers, point-makers and other mean trades.
stocking mask n. a thin nylon stocking pulled over the face to disguise the features, used esp. by criminals.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [noun] > for face or head
visorc1380
visernc1400
visurec1460
visiere1485
vizard1558
vision1563
bo-peeper1609
larvea1656
outsidea1656
vizard-mask1668
visor-mask1672
face mask1754
crape1785
false face1817
bird mask1853
vizarding1861
stocking mask1966
ski-mask1973
1966 Times 16 May 10 Three men in stocking masks raided Martins Bank in South Audley Street.
1978 G. Greene Human Factor i. ii. 25 He might object to a stocking mask all the same.
stocking-masked adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [adjective] > to conceal head or face
visoredc1380
in masker1519
in maska1533
muffled1566
vizarded1593
viserneda1599
masked1599
bemasked1620
larvated1623
crape-faced1815
bird-masked1876
stocking-masked1971
ski-masked1976
1971 Daily Tel. 24 Sept. 2/8 Six stocking-masked bandits..ambushed a lorry at Bethnal Green yesterday.
1977 N. Adam Triplehip Cracksman xviii. 186 Corny stocking-masked villains.
stocking needle n. a darning-needle.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > needle > types of
pack-needle1327
packing needle1597
Whitechapel needle1737
quadrille1818
blunt1833
sharps1834
darning-needle1848
between1849
ground-down1862
straw1862
darner1882
wool-needle1882
stocking needle1886
swing needle1954
1886 A. D. Willock Rosetty Ends (1887) 148 So, takin' a bittie o' paper, he wrote on it, ‘Dear Mary’, an' wi' a stockin' needle an' a bit worsit he steekit it on the inside o' the collar.
stocking-sole n. the sole, or that part of a stocking which comes under the tread of the foot; in, on one's stocking-soles, without one's shoes (cf. 5a above and stocking-foot n. 3).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > parts of > other
shanka1547
heelc1571
heeling1591
stocking-sole1607
scogger1615
calfa1658
stocking top1664
seama1825
rig1838
ladder-stop1931
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adverb] > in specific way
to (also into, unto) one's (also the) shirtc1300
in or of (a) suitc1325
in ragsa1350
in (also on) one's shirtc1380
in suit of or with1389
thinlya1400
in suit with1488
finely?1552
raggedly1552
smoothly1579
garish1590
briskly1592
in one's waistcoat1607
in mourning1621
in cuerpoa1640
in gala1757
airily1768
plain1808
in mufti1816
in, on one's stocking-soles1827
seedily1837
in beaver1840
back to front1869
dowdily1887
dossily1903
head-to-toe1946
sharp1951
sharply1965
understatedly1972
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 575 Thereof [of the otter-skin] also in Germany they make..stocking-soles.
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. vi. 153 A gallant young fellow like you,..six feet high on your stocking soles.
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xxi. 201 Tibbie went ben the house in her stocking-soles, but Jess heard her.
stocking-stitch n. the stitch used in hosiery (see quot. 1839).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > knitted fabric > stitches > other
stocking-stitch1805
cable pattern1882
cable-stitchc1890
shell-stitch1895
trellis stitch1921
pelerine stitch1924
cable1943
faggoting1974
1805 6th Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. App. ii. 154 Specification of..some new and improved kinds of Stocking stitch, and warp work.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 648 The whole piece is composed of a single thread..looped together in a peculiar manner, which is called stocking-stitch, and sometimes chain-work.
stocking stuffer n. North American = stocking filler n. above.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift at Christmas or New Year > at Christmas
Christmas present1663
Christmas gift1751
Christmas box1885
stocking filler1959
stocking stuffer1976
1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 7 Dec. 24/7 Rockefellers don't stress paperbacks this time of year—the market for stocking stuffers is apparently limited.
1977 Time 17 Jan. 28/2 Around holiday season, stocking-stuffer items like The Slipper and the Rose usually show up, all covered in glitter and good will.
stocking-throwing n. (see 5b above).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > stocking-throwing
stocking-throwing1885
1885 Cent. Mag. 30 393/1 Stocking-throwing and other such customs long lingered among the backwoodsmen of the colonies.
stocking tights n. = tights n. c.
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1967 Economist 5 Aug. 517/1 Manufacturers report orders..up by 23 per cent, mainly thanks to the invention of stocking tights..to go under mini skirts.
1977 J. Wainwright Nest of Rats i. i. 9 One leg of her stocking-tights badly torn.
stocking top n. the upper part or leg of a stocking.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > parts of > other
shanka1547
heelc1571
heeling1591
stocking-sole1607
scogger1615
calfa1658
stocking top1664
seama1825
rig1838
ladder-stop1931
1664 Charter Framework-Knitters Co. §26 And these [appointed members] to prove, try, and see whether all stocking-tops,..or any other thing..be workmanlike wrought.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede III. vi. liii. 305 I can count a stocking-top [in knitting] while a man's getting 's tongue ready.
1935 N. Mitchison We have been Warned i. ii. 19 To wear the sgian dhu in his stocking top, as he was allowed to with the kilt.
1978 R. H. Lewis Antiquarian Bks. ii. 47 Nina Hamnet..remembered..for her disconcerting habit of keeping her money in her stocking tops.
stocking-trimmer n. (see quot. 1858).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making hosiery > processes involved in > one who
stocking-trimmer1723
seamer1843
1723 London Gaz. No. 6194/9 Henry Hunt,..Stocking-Trimmer.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stocking-trimmer, a decorator or ornamenter of stockings; one who removes loose threads or imperfections.
stocking-weaver n. one who weaves with a stocking-frame.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > knitting machine > one who uses
stocking-weaver1697
stockinger1741
1697 D. Defoe Ess. Projects 24 For which I refer to the Engine it self, to be seen in every Stocking-Weaver's Garret.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 85 ‘Joe Blacklock’ [was] a rickety stocking-weaver.
stocking-yarn n. the thread used in making hosiery.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > for other specific purpose
packthread1304
pack-line1447
thrum1466
pack-twine1645
whip1825
basket-twine1833
stocking-yarn1835
draw thread1839
mending1882
straw cotton1882
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 343 So high is the character of their stocking-yarns and threads.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 463 Stocking Yarn..is Cotton thread, and is spun softer and looser than either Mule or Water Twist. Two threads are afterwards doubled together, and then slightly twisted round each other.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
stockingv.
/ˈstɒkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈstɑkɪŋ/ 1. transitive. To furnish with stockings.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > covering for legs (and feet)
hosec1300
stock1430
strapple1607
stocking1755
gaiter1760
sock1897
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Stocking, v.a., to dress in stockings.
1874 in W. Knight J. C. Shairp (1888) xiii. 315 The boys may be stockinged; will the mind be clothed and fed?
1892 Voice (N.Y.) Apr. 28 Enough..cotton to stocking every foot.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > kill [verb (transitive)] > by blow(s)
to beat (also stone, slay, etc.) to deathOE
to swap to (the) death, of livea1375
to ding to deathc1380
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)?1562
settle?1611
to bowl (one) to deatha1616
tomahawk1711
stocking1762
out1899
to knock out1903
1762 in Grimston Papers (MS.) As she had a regular education in Flanders, will be of great service when we come to action, in stripping, despatching, fleecing and stockinging the enemy.
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