stockn.1adj.
/stɒk/, U.S. /stɑk/ A. n.1
I. Trunk or stem.figurative.a1505 R. Henryson Against Hasty Credence 2 in Poems (1981) 163 Fals titlaris now growis vp full rank, Nocht ympit in the stok of cheretie.1642 T. Fuller Holy State iv. iii. 250 He was contented to be the stock whereon Wolsey should be graffed.1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. I. vi. 197 When once they had grafted the Slips of Superstition upon the Stock of Nature.1796 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France i. 101 The wise Legislators..who aimed at..grafting the virtues on the stock of the natural affections.† 5. The ‘trunk’ of a human body. Obsolete.Quot. 1590 is probably a conscious transferred use of sense A. 1.† 6. A post, stake. Obsolete.
1. † b. A log, block of wood; occasionally wood as a material. Obsolete.† e. (to lose) stock and block: everything, one's whole possessions. Obsolete.† f. stock and stovel (Law): see quot. 1753. Obsolete.
a. A tree-trunk deprived of its branches; the lower part of a tree-trunk left standing, a stump. Obsolete or archaic.In this sense (also in b and c) often associated with stone.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stump
stock862
moreeOE
stub967
zuche1358
stumpc1440
scrag1567
stool1577
brock1772
stow1774
hagsnar1796
stab1807
spronk1838
tree stool1898
862 Charter in Old Eng. Texts 438 Ðanne fram langan leage to ðam won stocce.
971 Blickling Hom. 189 He gefeol on þone stocc be þære stænenan stræte þe is háten Sacra uia.
11.. Fragm. Ælfric's Gram. (1838) 3 Ligna, drige wude, truncus, stoc, stirps.
c1250 Owl & Night. 25 Þo stod on old stok þar byside.
c1325 Sir Orpheo 332 Over stok, and over stone.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) v. met. i. 152 Þe stokkes araced wiþ þe flood [L. vulsi flumine trunci].
a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice 179 in Poems (1981) 138 For seke hir suth I sall, and nouthir stynt nor stand for stok no stone!
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cclxixv Hange vp the scapler..Vpon a tre clene dede, or rottyn stocke.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ix. sig. Iv All about old stockes and stubs of trees, Whereon nor fruite, nor leafe was euer seene.
1613 A. Standish New Direct. 6 Seldome good Timber groweth of old stockes.
1704 N. Blundell Diary (1895) 22 I ploughed with a Culter..to find Stocks.
1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino xi. 9 If the Parliament of England sets the Crown upon that Stock, (pointing to a Stump that stood by) I'll [etc.].
1732 J. Swift Market-hill Thorn in Misc. III. ix. 30 The Magpye, lighting on the Stock, Stood chatt'ring.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 10 O'er stock and rock their race they take.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. vii. 245 Over cliffs, over stock and stone.
1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vi. 98 The Stump of a Tree is sometimes called a STOCK.
1877 R. L. Stevenson Will o' Mill i Only he, it seemed, remained behind, like a stock upon the wayside.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > undressed trunk or log
stockc1000
log1398
round log1768
saw-log1799
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxxi. 856 Þær lagon stoccas.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 315 Mid stocken [c1300 Otho stocke] & mid stanen stal-fiht heo makeden.
c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2076 Ne how the fyr was couched first with stree And thanne with drye stokkes clouen a thre.
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 239 Suche a stomake is like a grete fyre that hath Powere to braunte grete shydis and stokkis.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 780 Made of stane and noȝt of stok.
c1485 Digby Myst. i. 154 I am right wele a-paid, if I do not wele, ley my hed vpon a stokke.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) ii. l. 1013 in Shorter Poems (1967) 66 Doun on a stok [1579 Edinb. stock] I set me suddanlye.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 251 A stocke of wood hollowed [for a coffin].
1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. I. Gloss. p. xv Stock of Timber, a piece of timber, intended to be sawed.
1806 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 61 My men sawed stocks for the sleds.
c. As the type of what is lifeless, motionless, or void of sensation. Hence, a senseless or stupid person.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [noun] > that which is
stock1303
stonea1400
blockc1410
non-sensitive1628
inanimate1652
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > typical example of
assc1175
stock1303
blockc1410
beetle1520
post1778
dunce capa1791
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
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dull-pate15..
peak1509
dulbert?a1513
doddy-patec1525
noddypolla1529
hammer-head1532
dull-head?1534
capon1542
dolt1543
blockhead1549
cod's head1549
mome1550
grout-head1551
gander1553
skit-brains?1553
blocka1556
calfa1556
tomfool1565
dunce1567
druggard1569
cobble1570
dummel1570
Essex calf1573
jolthead1573
hardhead1576
beetle-head1577
dor-head1577
groutnoll1578
grosshead1580
thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
jobbernowl1592
beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
oatmeal-groat1594
loggerhead1595
block-pate1598
cittern-head1598
noddypoop1598
dorbellist1599
numps1599
dor1601
stump1602
ram-head1605
look-like-a-goose1606
ruff1606
clod1607
turf1607
asinego1609
clot-poll1609
doddiea1611
druggle1611
duncecomb1612
ox-head1613
clod-polla1616
dulman1615
jolterhead1620
bullhead1624
dunderwhelpa1625
dunderhead1630
macaroona1631
clod-patea1635
clota1637
dildo1638
clot-pate1640
stupid1640
clod-head1644
stub1644
simpletonian1652
bottle-head1654
Bœotiana1657
vappe1657
lackwit1668
cudden1673
plant-animal1673
dolt-head1679
cabbage head1682
put1688
a piece of wood1691
ouphe1694
dunderpate1697
numbskull1697
leather-head1699
nocky1699
Tom Cony1699
mopus1700
bluff-head1703
clod skull1707
dunny1709
dowf1722
stupe1722
gamphrel1729
gobbin?1746
duncehead1749
half-wit1755
thick-skull1755
jackass1756
woollen-head1756
numbhead1757
beef-head1775
granny1776
stupid-head1792
stunpolla1794
timber-head1794
wether heada1796
dummy1796
noghead1800
staumrel1802
muttonhead1803
num1807
dummkopf1809
tumphya1813
cod's head and shoulders1820
stoopid1823
thick-head1824
gype1825
stob1825
stookiea1828
woodenhead1831
ning-nong1832
log-head1834
fat-head1835
dunderheadism1836
turnip1837
mudhead1838
donkey1840
stupex1843
cabbage1844
morepork1845
lubber-head1847
slowpoke1847
stupiditarian1850
pudding-head1851
cod's head and shoulders1852
putty head1853
moke1855
mullet-head1855
pothead1855
mug1857
thick1857
boodle1862
meathead1863
missing link1863
half-baked1866
lunk1867
turnip-head1869
rummy1872
pumpkin-head1876
tattie1879
chump1883
dully1883
cretin1884
lunkhead1884
mopstick1886
dumbhead1887
peanut head1891
pie-face1891
doughbakea1895
butt-head1896
pinhead1896
cheesehead1900
nyamps1900
box head1902
bonehead1903
chickenhead1903
thickwit1904
cluck1906
boob1907
John1908
mooch1910
nitwit1910
dikkop1913
goop1914
goofus1916
rumdum1916
bone dome1917
moron1917
oik1917
jabroni1919
dumb-bell1920
knob1920
goon1921
dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > want of or incapacity for emotion > type or emblem
stock1303
stonea1400
blockc1410
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 940 Dowun he smote hys mattok, And fyl hym self ded as a stok.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 3855 Arthour on hors sat stef so stok.
c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 6411 As deffe as stok or ston.
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 356 Evur sho talkid vnto hym wurdis to provoce hym to luste of his bodie, and yit be no wyse myght sho induce hym þerto,..he was a stokk, sho sayd, & no man.
1569 T. Underdowne tr. Heliodorus Æthiop. Hist. iv. 59 Yee vnhappy people, howe longe will ye sitte still, dombe like stockes?
1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xliii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. C7 That nether I may speake nor thinke at all, But like a stupid stock in silence die.
1641 E. Dering Foure Cardinall-vertues Carmelite-fryar sig. B2 I am not so credulous to thinke every Stock a Stoicke.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 I doubt not but ye shall have more adoe to drive our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and stubbs from the infinite desire of such a happy nurture, then we have now [etc.].
1713 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c29 Nov. (1965) I. 202 I am glad she is not such a stock as I took her to be.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 38 The Fellow stood mute as a Stock a good while.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. i What a phlegmatic sot it is! Why, sirrah, you're an anchorite!—a vile, insensible stock.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. vi. 414 I..left him in the street like a stock, staring at my termagant loquacity.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xix. 308 You stock and stone!.. You cold, cold heart!
1888 J. M. Barrie When Man's Single i Joey Fargus was the stock's name.
1896 J. K. Snowden Web of Old Weaver xviii. 207 ‘Ye are not fain to see me, then?’ I stood like a stock, letting her think so.
d. Applied contemptuously to an idol or a sacred image. Chiefly in the phrase stocks and stones = ‘gods of wood and stone’.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol
godeOE
anlikenessOE
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Mahoundc1275
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simulacre1382
marmoseta1398
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poppet?1548
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Dagona1572
pagoda1582
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Mokisso1634
poppet deitya1641
pageant idol1696
pageant thing1696
afgod1769
cult figure1895
c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxviii. 36 Ge þeouiað fremdum godum, stoccum and stanum.
a1225 St. Marher. 1 Heðene mawmez of stockes, ant of stanes, werkes iwrahte.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 589 He swor hir, yis, by stokkes and by stones, And by the goddes that in hevene dwelle.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 178 How myhte a mannes resoun sein That such a Stock mai helpe or grieve?
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 198 Thei worschipiden ymagis of stoonys or of stockis.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 140/1 Of al our Ladies saith one, I loue best our Lady of Walsingam. And I saith ye other our Lady of Ippiswitch. In whiche woordes what meneth she but her..affeccion to the stocke yt standeth in the chapel of Walsingam or Ippiswiche.
a1591 H. Smith Sinfull Mans Search (1592) sig. B6 That ye be not seduced to offer your petitions to strange gods, as Saints, stockes or stones.
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. iii. 9.
1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xiv. 21.
1640 J. Taylor Differing Worships 4 Imploring aid..From ragges and reliques, stones, and stocks of wood.
1673 J. Milton Sonnets xv, in Poems (new ed.) 58 When all our Fathers worship't Stocks and Stones.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 361 Those whom we regard as idolaters, and worshippers of stocks and stones.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. viii. 332 There was a worship of nature instead of stocks and stones.
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > a person's collective property or substance > the whole of one's property or possessions
all1340
(to lose) stock and block1675
maul and wedges1872
the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot > of one's possessions or interests
all1340
(to lose) stock and block1675
1675 T. Brooks Golden Key 354 Adam (like the Prodigal son)..quickly lost stock and block, as some speak it.
1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 236 Before I came Home, I lost all, Stock and Block.
1775 J. Murray Lett. (1901) 194 Jack Clark..offered to send Providence wagons to move us stock and block to a place of safety.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. xii. vi. 408 I had taken it for granted that..the verb-grinders..to whom I had given the plant of this Genoese bastard would lose stock and block.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > for cutting wood
stock and stovel?15..
?15.. Charter in Blount's Law Dict. (1691) at Stoc Præterea si homines de Stanhal dicti Abbatis inventi fuerint in bosco prædicti W. cum forisfacto ad Stoc & ad Stovel,..malefactor pro delicto, qui taliter inventus est, reddet tres solidos.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Stoc and Stovel, in our old writers, a forfeiture where any one is taken carrying stipites and pabulum out of the woods.
2. figurative.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 19 Þe oþer boȝ þet comþ out of þe stocke of prede zuo is onworþnesse.1447 O. Bokenham Anna in Lyvys Seyntys 110 Of this floure..This gracyous Anne was stoke & rote.a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxix. sig. k.iiii The tryed stock of truth, and the grounde of grace Is pyteously decayed.1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1537) 54 As ther is no synne in Christ ye stock, so can ther be none in the quycke membres that lyue & grow in him.a1550 in R. Dyboski Songs, Carols & Other Misc. Poems (1908) 6 The blessid stoke þat yt on grew, Ytt was Mary, that bare Jhesu.1647 A. Cowley Tree in Mistress iii What a few words from thy rich stock did take The Leaves and Beauties all?1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso iv. 126 Thence doth doubt Spring, like a shoot, around the stock of truth.1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic i. iv. 89 The impossibility..of attaching the manifold of change by a merely outward tie to the unchangeable stock of the Thing.
a. The trunk or stem of a (living) tree, as distinguished from the root and branches. †(to sell wood) upon the stock: standing.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > stem, trunk, or bole
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butt1601
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stam1839
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [adverb] > while standing or before felling
(to sell wood) upon the stock1340
to buy (brushwood, etc.) on or at the stub1532
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience i. 676 What es man in shap bot a tre Turned up þat es doun,..Þe stok nest þe rot growand Es þe heved with nek folowand.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xiv. 9 His stoc at the smel of water shal burioune.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxi. 146 Sumtime the wodieres solden here wode up on the stok.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 28 Tho bowis grewen out of stockis or tronchons, and the tronchons or schaftis grewen out of the roote.
?a1500 Bollarde in T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1851) I. 144 Take many rype walenottes, and water hem a while,..and ther shalbe grawe therof a grett stoke, that we calle masere.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiiij/2 Doo donge medlide with strawe aboute the stoke toward the roete of a good thiknes.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Mvv Of the which tree, feyth, hope and charite, be compared to the stocke, to the barke, and to the sappe.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 84/2 The Stock [of a tree is] next to the root.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 79 Strong Stocks of Vines it will in time produce. View more context for this quotation
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xvi. 291 The Stock of these Trees, if they deserve that Name, grow to once and a half or twice Man's height.
1846 Ld. Tennyson Golden Year in Poems (ed. 4) II. 91 Like an oaken stock in winter woods.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §57 The Stock or caudex is an undivided woody trunk.
b. The hardened stalk or stem of a plant (Jamieson). Chiefly Scottish.
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the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [noun] > hardened
runt1602
stock1629
1629 Orkney Witch Trial in N.B. Advertiser Oct. 1894 [He] baid his wyff geve yow thrie or four stokis of kaill.
1786 R. Burns Poems 64 To slink thro' slaps, an' reave an' steal, At stacks o' pease, or stocks o' kail.
1913 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Balder the Beautiful (ed. 3) II. xi. 193 One..gave him several severe blows with the stock of a plant.
c. Botany. = rhizome n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > rhizome
rootstock1803
rhizoma1811
stock1831
rhizome1833
rootage1855
1831 W. Macgillivray tr. A. Richard Elem. Bot. ii. 47 The Stock or Rhizoma. This name has been given to the subterranean and horizontal stems of perennial plants, entirely or in part concealed under ground.
1863 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (1873) 5 A portion of the stem, which is thickened and more or less buried underground,..is called the stock.
3. Figurative uses developed from sense A. 2.† b. The original from which something is derived. Obsolete.generalized use.1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. i. i. 5 Gonzales was of Hebrew stock.1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 137 A lady of calm, well-balanced nervous system, well nourished and of healthy stock.1900 J. Hutchinson in Archives Surg. XI. 210 Most local inflammations of the skin which are definitely blue, occur to those who are of gouty stock.† e. Pedigree, genealogy; a genealogical tree. Obsolete.
a. The source of a line of descent; the progenitor of a family or race. In Law, the first purchaser of an estate of inheritance.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > ancestral stock or root
kinc1100
kindc1175
kindredc1200
rootc1330
stockc1393
stirp?1573
radix1651
source1670
society > law > transfer of property > [noun] > one who acquires land by a single title > original
perquisitor1766
stock1886
c1393 G. Chaucer Gentilesse 1 The firste stok, fader of gentilesse.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 9240 Þus was þe ton þe toþeres stok.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 49 In ony of þise thre lynes afore-seyd, go to þe stok, þat is, fadyr or modyr, & noumbre noȝt hem, but þe first persone, þat comyth of þat stok is þe first degre.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCx Go to ye stocke of our progeny, & consyder it well.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Diii If a man should desire an herauld to sift out her pettigree,..her stock would be found to be the maine sea, wereof she is nothing but the ouerture and ofscombe.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 15 Hee that was the stocke of all mankinde.
1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 292 The common stocke in a Kindred, or Tribe, is the Father, and Mother from whence the whole progeny, or issue is deriued.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 7 Thus thou hast seen one World begin and end; And Man as from a second stock proceed. View more context for this quotation
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. iii. 210 The title to the crown is..not quite so absolutely hereditary as formerly; and the common stock or ancestor, from whom the descent must be derived, is also different. Formerly the common stock was king Egbert; then William the conqueror.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 249 But one of Swegen's many sons might well become the stock of a new dynasty.
1886 F. W. Maitland in Law Q. Rev. Oct. 485 To constitute a new stock of descent a very real possession was necessary.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source or primitive or original form
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primordium1704
germen1794
root form1832
rootstock1862
a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iiii4/1 Brave soldier yeeld; thou stock of Arms and Honor, thou filler of the world with fame and glory.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 391 In some resemblance of the seven Planets, amongst which the Sun, the stock of light, stands in the midst.
1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §5. 12 The delight which arises from the modifications of pain, confesses the stock from whence it sprung.
c. A line of descent; the descendants of a common ancestor, a family, kindred.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun]
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strindc900
maegtheOE
i-cundeeOE
birdeOE
houseOE
kindOE
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prosapy?a1475
parentage1490
stirpc1503
pedigree1532
racea1547
stem?c1550
breed1596
progenies1673
familia1842
uji1876
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xvii. 55 Abner, of what stok descendide [L. de qua stirpe descendit] this ȝong man?
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 693 Of his lynage am I, and his of spryng By verray ligne, as of the stok roial.
1430–1 Rolls of Parl. IV. 378/1 All the braunches of the Stok Riall.
1477 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 500 I..ame better content nowe þat he sholde have hyre than any other,..concyderyd hyre persone, hyre yowthe, and the stok þat she is comyn offe.
1547 tr. A. de Marcourt Bk. Marchauntes (new ed.) e iiij b A yong child comen of a good stocke and riche kinred.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxii. 82 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 92 Eternall lord, whom Iacobs stock adore.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iv. §1 They all were originally of the same stock.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1079 Men call me Harapha, of stock renown'd. View more context for this quotation
1693 G. Stepney tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires viii. 165 From a mean Stock the Pious Decii came.
a1704 T. Brown Beauties to Armida in Wks. (1707) I. i. 65 Unite two Stocks to form the witty She, Dorinda's Sense, and Flavia's Repartee.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xvii. 697 The national prejudices ran in favour of their ancient stock of kings.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story i The Crabbs were of a very old English stock.
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone xviii. 168 That girl comes of the wrong stock to give up anything she has fancied without a struggle.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 67 A warrior of the stock of Hercules was leader.
1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook iii An ancestral consumption, his sole heritage from the good New England stock of which he came.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 296 I usually found the stock on both sides to be a highly ‘nervous’ one.
d. A race, ethnical kindred; also, a race or family (of animals or plants); a related group, ‘family’ (of languages). Also (cf. A. 1a, A. 1b), an ancestral type from which various races, species, etc. have diverged.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > race > [noun]
strindc900
bloodOE
gest13..
strainc1330
nationa1382
kindc1390
markc1395
prosapy?a1475
stock1549
stem?c1550
caste1555
spring1597
race1612
issue1620
nationality1832
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > common origin
stock1549
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > group sharing common inheritance
foodc1225
stock1549
breed1553
race1563
strain1607
the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages
stocka1727
family1762
linguistic stock1846
linguistic family1847
language group1853
language family1863
Rhaeto-Etruscan1939
macrophylum1958
phylum1958
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. iv. f. viii Of whom as father & beginner of theyr stocke, the whole nacion of Jewes are wont specially to crake & glory.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 121 One of Nemethus his progenie, that is, of the Scythian stocke.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 152 They haue Priests of the posteritie of Aaron which resteth in peace, who marrie not with any other but the men or women of their owne stocke.
a1727 W. Wotton Disc. Confusion Babel (1730) 15 So that though this will invincibly prove the Gradation and Derivation of different Dialects from a common Stock, yet it will not prove the actual Formation of some essentially different Tongues which I here contend for.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) lxxx. x Thou didst the Heathen Stock expel.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 61 Were there but one of these wild animals, the enquiry would soon be ended; and we might readily allow it for the parent stock.
1813 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Man vii. §6. 392 The interior of Malaya, where they have left remnants of their stock in the black savages of the mountains.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul ii. xii. 311 The languages of the inhabitants were probably all derived from the ancient Persian stock.
1822 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. I. 570 The stock or family of the languages of Eastern Asia, or of the Monosyllabic languages, differs entirely from that of the Indo-Germanic languages.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 272 A population, sprung from the English stock, and animated by English feelings.
1860 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 2) i. 17 In the case of some other domesticated species, there is presumptive, or even strong evidence, that all the breeds have descended from a single wild stock.
1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature 140 We know that all varieties of pigeons of every kind have arisen by a process of selective breeding from a common stock, the Rock Pigeon.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) ii. 41 Even this is considerably older than the date of any family which we can connect with..the Hellenic stock.
1911 W. W. Fowler Relig. Exper. Rom. People iv. 69 When a stock or tribe (populus) after migration took possession of a district.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record
genealogyc1384
lineal1426
stock1552
genealogue1586
stemma1879
whakapapa1960
1552 H. Latimer Serm. Christmas Day (1584) 273 Shee boasted not of her stocke to be of the linage of noble king Dauid.
a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) i. 1 This is ye book of Jesu Christes stock.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xi. 294 When, seuerally All told their stockes [Gk. ἑκάστη ὃν γόνον ἐξαγόρευεν].
1657 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 225 In the north window opposit to the former is the stock of Jesse.
f. Kind, sort. Now dialect (see quot. 1787).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun]
kindeOE
i-cundeOE
mannera1225
jetc1330
colour1340
hair1387
estrete1393
gendera1398
hedea1400
savourc1400
stockc1450
toucha1500
rate1509
barrel1542
suit1548
fashion1562
special1563
stamp1573
family1598
garb1600
espece1602
kidney1602
bran1610
formality1610
editiona1627
make1660
cast1673
tour1702
way1702
specie1711
tenor1729
ilk1790
genre1816
stripe1853
persuasion1855
c1450 J. Lydgate Secrees 2001 Good breed of whete, fflesh that wel savours, Of tarrage and stok, good and holsom wyne.
1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede iii. 101 It would argue either Antichristian blindness not to see, or impudency of no meaner stocke, not to acknowledge that [etc.].
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 389 Stock, species of a crop.
1917 N.E.D. at Stock Mod. (Norfolk) Where did you get that stock o' wheat from? Oh, I ha' had that stock for years.
g. Feudalism. native (or villein) of stock, a modern rendering of medieval Latin nativus de stipite, a serf by inheritance.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > service > feudal service > serfdom > [noun] > serf > types of
villein regardant1443
helot1579
regardant1646
scallagc1700
borderer1771
bordar1776
mainmortable1779
native (or villein) of stock1828
Penest1835
adscript1837
1828 tr. Assession Roll (Duchy of Cornwall) 11 Edw. III in Manning & Ryland Rep. Cases K.B. (1830) III. 162 Robert Ceron, a villein of stock, holds the Lord Duke, in villenage, in Tyngaran, 1 messuage, 5 acres of land English.
1828 tr. Assession Roll (Duchy of Cornwall) 11 Edw. III in Manning & Ryland Rep. Cases K.B. (1830) III. 193 John, son of Ralph (Ranulf) of Tremaba, a villein of stock [foot-note Nativus de stipite], who at the last assession was admitted to one messuage..is now granted..To hold in form of stock [foot-note in formâ stipitis].
h. Used for: Inherited constitution, ‘breed’. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > inherited quality or constitution
draught1483
strind?a1513
patrimonya1578
strain1605
inheritance1613
hereditament1795
stripe1861
stock1866
unit character1902
1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 243 His toughness of stock and copiousness of force enabled him to weather the storms of nearly a century.
4. A stem in which a graft is inserted.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > place where graft inserted
clefta1398
stockc1400
grafting1601
seed stock1702
crown graft1706
graft1802
root graft1824
saddle graft1830
rind-graft1907
c1400 Pylgr. Sowle iv. ii. (Caxton 1483) 58 When that this graffe had taken kynde and moysture of this stock on whiche hit was ymped.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxij/2 Take a graf of an apyll tree and graf it in a stoke of elme or aller and it shal bere redde aplys.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 73v When you haue thus set in your graffe in the stocke.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 58 in Sylva Gather Cyons for Graffs before the buds sprout; and about the latter end, Graff them in the Stock.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Grafting The Stock for Slit-Grafting should be an Inch at least.
1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §311 He chooses a stock, or stem deprived of its own buds, and cuts off its top in a sloping direction, so as [etc.].
1903 W. H. Hutton Infl. Christianity v. 225 He..grafted apples upon the wild stocks.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [noun]
bodyeOE
lichOE
bouka1225
stocka1387
trunka1513
corsage?1518
torso1864
core1972
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 233 Þe stok of a man [L. truncus homo] fouȝt wiþ his teeþ as it were a wood beest.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. l. 168 The stocke of the body begynnyth at the necke and stretchyth to the buttockes.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 32 Þanne he bad þat þe stok of his [body] schulde be leyde in a carte.
1560 in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde (new ed.) i. f. xliiiv In this fyrste fygure is set foorth the tronke or stocke of a womans bodye.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G7 He smott of his left arme..; Large streames of blood out of the truncked stock Forth gushed.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a vertical support, post, or stake
stakec893
studeOE
studdleeOE
stealc1000
stockc1000
postOE
stander1325
pillar1360
stilpc1380
bantelc1400
puncheon1423
stanchion1433
standard1439
side tree1451
stancher1488
stanchel1586
stipit1592
shore1601
trunch1622
arrectary1628
staddle1633
standing1800
mill-post1890
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.
stingc725
stakec893
sowelc900
tree971
rungOE
shaftc1000
staffc1000
stockc1000
poleOE
spritOE
luga1250
lever1297
stanga1300
perchc1300
raftc1330
sheltbeam1336
stower1371
palea1382
spar1388
spire1392
perk1396
ragged staff1397
peela1400
slot1399
plantc1400
heck-stower1401
sparkin1408
cammockc1425
sallow stakec1440
spoke1467
perk treec1480
yard1480
bode1483
spit1485
bolm1513
gada1535
ruttock1542
stob1550
blade1558
wattle1570
bamboo1598
loggat1600
barling1611
sparret1632
picket1687
tringle1706
sprund1736
lug-pole1773
polting lug1789
baton1801
stuckin1809
rack-pin1821
picket-pin1844
I-iron1874
pricker1875
stag1881
podger1888
window pole1888
verge1897
sallow pole1898
lat1899
swizzle-stick1962
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxvi. 260 Ða sæde se preost him Ic hæbbe of þam stocce þe his heafod on stod.
1294 Exch. Acc. 5/2 Pro wyndase et wyndase stockez xv s. vi d.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 8326 Samuel nam Agag þane king..and lette hine faste to one stocke [c1275 Calig. stake] bynde.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Josh. x. 26 And Josue smoot, and slewȝ hem, and hongide vpon fyue stokkis [L. super quinque stipites].
1409–10 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 56 To William Morton, carpenter, for a stok.
c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher 568 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 356 Þane þe fellone tyrand king..be-hynd his bak his handis bath til a gert stok gert bynd [hym] rath.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. B.ii He shal lye sycke at their doore betwene stocke & stock.
1599 Hist. Syr Clyomon & Clamydes sig. F2v Ile beate thee like a stocke.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 311/2 Whipping Post (or Whipping Stock)..To this Post is [sic] Offenders and Petty Rogues and Vagabonds made fast while they are Whipt.
7. The main upright part of anything; the vertical beam, stem (of a cross).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [noun] > vertical object or part > main upright part
stock1382
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. viii. 4 The myddil stok [of the candlestick: L. medius stipes].
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 Þe stock [of the Cross] þat stude in þe erthe..was of cedre.
1463 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 134 Thomæ Spence de Pontesfracto pro j stoke pro le tryndiles, 20 d.
1859 R. S. Hawker in Baring-Gould Vicar of Morwenstow (1876) vii. 198 It was..a pentacle of stars, whereof two shone for the transome and three for the stock.
8. construed as singular.1573 New Custome ii. iii. sig. C iij Euery stockes should be full, euery prison, and iayle. a1625 [see sense A. 8c]. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iii. ii. 172 The stocks stood staring at him mournfully from its four great eyes.1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. iii. xxiv. 248 Now the stocks is rebuilt, the stocks must be supported.† b. singular. Obsolete. rare.
a. plural. An obsolete instrument of punishment, consisting of two planks set edgewise one over the other (usually framed between posts), the upper plank being capable of sliding up and down. The person to be punished was placed in a sitting posture, with the ankles confined between the two planks, the edges of which were furnished with holes to receive them. Sometimes there were added similar contrivances for securing the wrists.The synonymous medieval Latin cippi, French ceps, suggest that this use of stock is an application of sense A. 6, the reference being to the two side-posts of the apparatus.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks
stocksc1325
pilloryc1330
stocka1382
gofe1489
stretchneck1543
harmans1567
foot trap1585
pigeonholes1592
jougs1596
berlina1607
halsfang1607
gorget1635
cippusa1637
nutcrackers1648
catasta1664
wooden cravat1676
the wooden ruff1677
neck stock1681
wooden casement1685
timber-stairsc1750
Norway neckcloth1785
law-neck-cloth1789
stoop1795
timber1851–4
nerve1854
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 163 E pur ço ke seygnur fet coingner Soun neif en ceps [glossed stockes] pur chastier.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iv. 95 Bote Reson haue reuþe of him he resteþ in þe stokkes Also longe as I lyue.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1186 Bynd hem herde wyþ yre & steel & pote hem in stokkes of trow.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 46 On payne of enprysonment & puttyng in stokkez.
1503 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 6 §4 It shalbe lawefull..to put theym into the Stokkis and theym so to kepe till the next Market day.
1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Pardoner & Frere sig. B.iv Wherfore by saynt Iohn thou shalt not escape me Tyll thou hast scouryd a pare of stokys.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 112 And in my escape like to a bene apprehended For a witch of Brainford, and set in the stockes.
1620 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 784/2 To hald and have stockis, joggis, prissounhousis, pit and gallous.
1620 S. Rowlands Night-raven (1872) 3 Whores and Whoremongers trading for the Pox, And reeling Watch-men, carrying Rogues to Stox.
1632 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 301 Theis workes..belong vnto the..Carpenters..The makinge of..stocks cages and whipping postes.
1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iv. i. 49 Constable, Watch, stokes, stokes, stokes, murder—.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xxix. 370 [Other punishments] Such as whipping, hard labour in the house of correction, the pillory, the stocks, and the ducking-stool.
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 162 Over the Green, and along by the George, Past the Stocks, and the Church, and the Forge.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 21 Dec. 10/1 Since my ordination (it was in 1870) I have seen a man in the stocks as a punishment for drunkenness.
1905 Ld. Coleridge Story Devonshire House (1906) ii. 22 In the churchyard may be seen the time-worn stocks.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks
stocksc1325
pilloryc1330
stocka1382
gofe1489
stretchneck1543
harmans1567
foot trap1585
pigeonholes1592
jougs1596
berlina1607
halsfang1607
gorget1635
cippusa1637
nutcrackers1648
catasta1664
wooden cravat1676
the wooden ruff1677
neck stock1681
wooden casement1685
timber-stairsc1750
Norway neckcloth1785
law-neck-cloth1789
stoop1795
timber1851–4
nerve1854
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xiii. 27 Thou hast putte in the stoc [L. in nervo] my foot.
c1460 Oseney Reg. 86 Noþer to put þere men in preson or in-to bondys or in-to stocke for oony trespase or forfet.
c. in figurative context.
ΚΠ
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 186 Whanne god settyth þe in stockys of sykenes, or in prisoun of deth-euyll.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxix Thus strayte (lady) hath sir Daunger laced me in stockes, I leue it be not your wyl.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe ii. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nn3/1 Was ever man but I in such a stockes?
1805 A. Knox Remains (1834) I. 27 Their feet are, as it were, made fast, in the stocks of appetite and passion.
1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey Pref. 23 Put thine own pride and cruelty in the stocks.
1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 153 The world would end, were Dulness not, to tame Wit's feathered heels in the stern stocks of fact.
d. loosely in plural †(a) Fetters. Obsolete. (b) The pillory.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > fetters
stockc1430
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) viii. vi. 180 b/1 This hardy princesse [Zenobia]..with stockes of gold [L. aureis compedibus] was brought to the cite.
c1825 J. Choyce Log of Jack Tar (1891) 26 They put his neck in the stocks and kept him there until he was sober.
1860 J. G. Whittier Quaker Alumni 102 The priestcraft that glutted the shears, And festooned the stocks with our grandfathers' ears.
e. transferred (a) the shoemaker's stocks (jocularly): Tight boots. (b) Applied to certain callisthenic contrivances formerly used in girls' schools.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > other > boots
the shoemaker's stocks1666
kinkies1965
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > equipment > others
trochus1706
troque1743
chamber horse1747
dumb-bell1785
stock1831
rowing machine1848
chest-expander1850
weights1862
stationary bicycle1883
punching bag1888
medicine ball1895
punching ball1895
stationary bike1899
kettlebell1908
rower1933
Exercycle1936
exercise bicycle1937
exercise bike1946
exercise cycle1952
roller1970
life cycle1973
multi-gym1976
gut-buster1983
roller1992
1666 S. Pepys Diary 22 Apr. (1972) VII. 107 Being in the shoemaker's stocks, I was heartily weary.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Shoe-makers-stocks, pincht with strait Shoes.
1824 G. Kennedy Anna Ross 47 Her poor little feet were placed in stocks, because her Mamma said she turned her toes in when she walked.
1831 E. Sandford Woman in her Social & Domestic Char. x. 129 The modern school-room..might pass in succeeding centuries for a refined inquisition. There would be found stocks for the fingers, and pulleys for the neck, [etc.].
1880 J. F. South Househ. Surg. (ed. 4) 331 I do not know whether that miserable invention, the stocks, is still in existence.
9. [? transferred from 8.] A frame in which a horse is confined for shoeing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > frame to hold horse
travec1405
trevis?a1500
travail1585
traversea1825
stock1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2391.
II. A supporting structure.† 10. † b. the Stocks, the Stocks Market: the name of a market for meat, fish, etc. in the City of London, on or near the site of the Mansion House.Stow Survey (1598) 178 alleges that the market was so called because it was built on the site where ‘had stoode a payre of stockes, for punishment of offendors’; but this is probably a mere guess.† c. (See quot. 1831) Obsolete.Scott's explanation is perhaps erroneous; his source may have used black stock in sense A. 14.† 18. A roller for a map. Obsolete.† 19. A perch for a bird. Obsolete. [So Dutch stok.]
a. The block or table on which a butcher or a fishmonger cuts his goods. Scottish. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > meat-block, board, or table
meat-table1381
stock1488
butcher's block1577
butcher's tray1651
carving-board1675
meat-boarda1827
meat block1838
1488 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 56 Baith in slaing and breking as a craftisman honestlie at his stok.
1508 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 114 It is ordanit that..the sellares and brekkaris of the greit fische haif thair stoks and grayth thairdone for that intent.
1508 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 114 At [= that] all thair [sc. the fleshers] stokis be of ane lenth.
1577 Extracts Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) I. 64 It sall nocht be lesum to na freman to hawe flesche stokis ma nor ane in the land marcat.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for sale of food > for sale of meat or fish > specific
Billingsgatec1300
the Stocksa1350
Leadenhall Market1587
a1350 Chron. Edw. I & Edw. II, Ann. Lond. (Rolls, 1882) I. 90 [In 1282 Henry le Waleis built] domos..apud Wolchirchehawe, quae vocantur Hales, Anglice Stockes.
c1483 Chron. London (1827) 137 This yere [1450] the stokkes was dividid bitwene fisshmongers and bochers.
1554 Two London Chron. (1910) 38 And at ye Stokes was a great pagaunte made at ye cities cost.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1348/2 West towards the Stocks market.
1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 36. 192 A fruiterer's apprentice at Stocks-market.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 112 The Mansion-house, built in the Place where Stocks-market used to be kept.
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1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous i, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 228 When was it that I hungered or thirsted, and the black stock of Berkely did not relieve my wants? [Note] The table dormant, which stood in a baron's hall, was often so designated.
11. A gun-carriage. Cf. gun-stock n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun]
stock1496
carriage1562
sea-carriage1669
gun-carriage1769
devil carriage1794
devil-cart1797
sleigh1797
galloper carriage1802
garrison-carriage1872
galloping carriage1883
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 289 Giffin for bering of a ryvin gunstok fra the Kingis Werk to Johne Lammys smythy to bynd it, xiiij d.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 246 Elmyn tres..for..makyng of Gonne stokkes for Gonnes belongyng to the seid Ship.
1578 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 248 Ane double cannon of fonte..montit upoun ane new stok.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Affuster, as Affuster l'artillerie, to sette the artillerie in the stocke or frame.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vii. 213 The Carpenters were ordered to fix eight stocks in the main and fore-tops, which were properly fitted for the mounting of swivel Guns.
12. The outer rail of a bedstead; the side of a bed away from the wall; plural a bedstead. Obsolete exc. Scottish (local). Cf. bedstock n. [So Old Norse stokkr.]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead
bedsteadc1440
steada1475
bedstock1483
stock1525
bed-case1557
bed-frame1815
bed-irons1863
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > bedstead > outer rail
stock1525
1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. lxxi. P ij b And he must be bounde to .iii. or .iiii. places of ye bedstede and ye hole foote must be bounde to the stock that ye pacyent may not drawe it vp to hym.
1544 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 213 The bede and the stokes that I lie in.
1562 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 156 Stocks of a bedde and bleckfatts, iiij s.
1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (new ed.) 71 (Jam.) Hezekiah turned his backe to the stocke, and his face to the wall.
a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. vi. 35 It will be proper to observe that the bed was so placed as to be close to the wall; Rancour went into it first, and the merchant going after him lay at the stock which was considered as the place of honour.
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 347 Stock, the outer rail of a bedstead; or the front side of a bed, which is placed against a wall.
13.
a. plural. The framework on which a ship or boat is supported while in process of construction.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests
stocks1422
trestle1612
cradle1627
boat cradle1829
gridiron1846
skid1856
grid1867
crib1883
1422 Foreign Acc. 61, m. 43 (Publ. Rec. Office) Ad extrahend' et deducend' dictam navem extra idem wose supra stokkes in quâdam fossurâ vocatâ le dook..apud Deptford'.
1425 Foreign Acc. 59, m. 22 d Propter debilitatem et confracciones ejusdem posita fuit in quodam dok supra stokes ibidem de novo construend'.
1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. A2v At length I was informed..that one Roger Godsdue Esquire,..had on the Stockes at Yarmoth fiue Busses.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. i. 1 The stockes are certaine framed posts, much of the same nature vpon the shore to build a Pinnace, a Catch, a Frigot, or Boat, &c.
1638 T. Heywood True Descr. Royall Ship 13 Had not the famous Archimedes devised new Engines to rowle her [the vessel] out of the stocks into the water.
1670 London Gaz. No. 4039/4 There is now upon the stocks an extraordinary large ship of 2500 Tuns.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Stocks; so the Ship-Carpenters call a Frame of Timber, and great Posts made a-shore to build Pinnaces, Ketches, Boats, [etc.].. Hence we say, a Ship is on the Stocks, when she is a Building.
1755 New-York Mercury 14 July 3/1 One of the Gallies [is] planked and compleatly rigged on the Stocks.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Stocks, a frame erected on the shore of a river, or harbour, whereon to build shipping.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. II. 34 Having..set upon the stocks two ships.
1810 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1836) VI. 568 Having completed the boats which were on the stocks.
1875 L. F. Tasistro tr. Comte de Paris Hist. Civil War Amer. I. 448 They..only succeeded in destroying one of the stocks for ship-building.
b. figurative, esp. in phrase on the stocks, said e.g. of a literary work planned and commenced.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > in preparation [phrase]
to be in making?a1425
to be a-making1492
in the making1644
on the stocks1669
1669 W. Carr Pluto Furens Ep. Ded. Until my other Play be finished, which is now on the Stocks.
1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant iv. i. 62 Farewel; you know I have other business upon the Stocks.
1765 S. Foote Commissary ii. 43 I made these rhimes into a duet for a new comic opera I have on the stocks.
1783 Virginia Hist. Mag. 5 390 I'm desirous to provide in the best manner I possibly can for my wife, a son, two daughters, and a child which I expect is in the stocks.
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxxi. 294 A worthy elder, shocked at the scandal of such a numerous illegal progeny being all ‘on the stocks’ at once, waited on his pastor to condole upon the subject.
1836 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) II. 163 I have had a long letter on the stocks for you for the last fortnight.
1868 E. FitzGerald Lett. I. 315 We shouldn't go off the stocks easy (pardon nautical metaphors).
1898 Athenæum 4 June 724/1 The ‘Encyclopædia Britannica’, the ninth edition of which was on the point of being put on the stocks.
14. dialect. A ledge at the back or the side of a fireplace, on which a kettle or pot can be placed when removed from the fire: = hob n.2 1.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > hob or hob-stone
hob1511
hub1511
stock1596
hud-stone1697
hud-end1828
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvii. 220 Cowring ore two sticks a-crosse, burnt at a smoakie Stocke.
1616 T. Overbury et al. His Wife, with New Elegies (7th impr.) Newes from Chimney Corner sig. Q6 That a Wise-rich-man is like the backe or stocke of the Chimney, and his wealth the fire, it receiues not for it[s] owne need, but to reflect the heat to others good.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 400 Stock, the plate, or place, at the back of the fire, or immediately above it.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 298 Stock, the horizontal space at the side of a grate.
1917 N.E.D. at Stock Mod. (Northants.) I put the tea-kettle on one of the stocks and the saucepan on the other.
15. Brickmaking.
a. = stock-board n. at Compounds 1f.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > brick-making equipment > [noun] > mould > bottom of
stock1683
stock-board1850
1683 J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husb. II. vi. 188 In the middle we fasten with Nails a piece of board, which we call a Stock; this Stock is about half an Inch thick, and just big enough for the Mould to slip down upon.
1683 J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husb. II. vi. 188 Then rubbing the Stock and inside of the Mould with Sand, with the Earth he forms a Brick.
1703 [see stock-brick n. at Compounds 1f]. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Brick Stock-bricks..are made on a stock, that is, the mould is put on a stock, after the manner of moulding or striking of tiles.
b. Short for stock-brick n. at Compounds 1f.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of
white brick1468
red brick1587
clinker1659
clinkerc1660
stock-brick1683
Windsor brick1702
grey stock1726
stockc1738
red stock1748
firebrick1749
Welsh lump1798
malm1811
cutting-brick1815
pecking1819
blue brick1823
malm brick1824
Windsor1841
cutter1842
grizzle1843
shuff1843
picking1850
Woolpit brick1887
Hollander1897
Staffordshire1898
Stafford brick1908
misfire1923
klompie1926
c1738 in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 567 The Brickwork for £5. 10 per Rod and to do the same with Stocks.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §79 To pave the back kitchen..with common stocks, bedded in sand.
1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 34/1 Brickwork, consisting of sound, hard, and well-burned square stocks.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stocks,..the red and grey bricks which are used for the exterior of walls and fronts of buildings.
1892 Daily News 16 Dec. 2/2 Decorated with red ‘Newbiggin’ stone and picked London stocks.
1905 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 May 8/2 Brick, of the kind known as dark purple stock.
16. The support of the block in which the anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > anvil > stock
stithy-stock1295
stock1295
1295 MS. Exch. Acc. 5/8 Et viij d. in uno stithi et stithistok portando..usque ad placeam galee.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. viii. 336 To the stock he heaved His anvil huge.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2389/1 That to which others are attached, or in which they are inserted, as,..the anvil to its stock or pillar.
17. A stand or frame supporting a spinning-wheel or a churn.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > a stand or support to raise from the ground
lathe1476
stool1481
stallagec1500
stand1587
thrall1674
stock1688
horse1703
stage1797
sub-base1865
stillage1875
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 286/2 The large Spinning Wheele..consists in these parts. The Stock standing on four Feet. The Standard [etc.].
1858 W. Arnot Laws from Heaven 2nd Ser. xlix. 400 She kept a Bible lying open on the ‘stock’ of the wheel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > others
wrencher1495
syringe1659
stock1737
agglomerator1890
1737 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 479 The Maps are very large, there was no possible way of sending them by Post..than by rolling them upon a Stock.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > perch
perka1525
stock1575
perch1736
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 79 When you haue shewed hir the perche or stocke, and tyed hir vpon it, put with hir vpon the sayde pearche or stocke some Pullet.
III. A box, hollow receptacle. Cf. trunk n. 2.† 20. An alms-box. [So German (almosen)stock, Dutch (offer) stok. Compare French tronc.] Obsolete.† 21.
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c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1907) 188 A coffre hauynge a hole abouen in manere of stokkes that ben now vsed in chirches.
1419 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 146 Et in sal. unius hominis facientis j stok propter oblac. in le Crudys, 3d. ex convencione.
1504 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 266 Item, to the Kingis offerand in the stock at Sanct Duthois towm, xiiij s.
1527 in W. L. Nash Churchwardens' Acct. Bk. St. Giles, Reading (1851) 30 Of Willm A Dene for the stokk of the masse xls.
a. A trough; a basin; a stoup, esp. one used for holy water. (See holy-water stock n. at holy water n. Compounds 2.) Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > holy water stoup > [noun]
water stone1379
stop1419
stockc1450
stoup1500
holy-water stock1530
font1542
holy-water stone1566
piscina1797
bénitier1853
benatura1873
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > open vessels for liquids > [noun] > basin
basinc1220
laverc1394
stockc1450
pelvis1727
p'an1904
c1450 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1842) III. i. 203 Ane crem stok of siluer with ane closour of siluer.
1486 Bk. St. Albans b viij b It behouyth that yowre hawke haue a fedyng stokke in hir mewe.
1500 Will of Margaret Odingsellis (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/12) f. 109 Holy Water stoke.
1554 Church-wardens' Accts. in T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 17 in Church-hist. Brit. (1655) A Stock of brass for the Holy-water.
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxv. f. 103v They doe not onely hallow their holie water stockes, and tubbes ful of water, but all the riuers of the countrey once euery yeere.
b. (See quot. 1877.)
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society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > ampulla or chrismatory > [noun]
elvatc1000
chrismatorc1425
chrismatoryc1450
chrismerec1450
cream-stockc1450
vat1507
cream-box1565
chrisom1570
ampulla1720
chrismary1844
thumb-stall1849
oil stock1872
stock1872
1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 334 Oil Box... Also called Oil Stock.
1877 F. G. Lee Gloss. Liturg. & Eccl. Terms 384 Stock... A vessel containing oils blessed for use in the Christian sacraments is so called in ordinary parlance.
22. (More fully fulling-stock, fulling n.1) In a fulling-mill: Originally, the wooden trough or box in which the cloth is placed to be beaten by the ‘faller’ or the mallet; hence, this receptacle together with the ‘faller’. In modern use, stock is often taken to denote the ‘faller’ or mallet itself.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > mill > part of
stock1377
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 445 Cloth..is nouȝt comly to were, Tyl it is fulled vnder fote or in fullyng stokkes.
1506–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 252 Pro factura de lez stoke 13s. 4d.
1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 64 The same is true of water gushing out upon the floats of under-shot Mills; as may be seen in the Stampers of Paper-Mills, the Stocks of Fulling-Mills [etc.].
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 109 Our Fulling-Mills that we now have, our Fallers are taken up a great height, and so fall down into the Stock upon the Cloth.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 109 The Mills that go by Wind, the Fallers, or Feet, fall down perpendicular into the Stock, through a square hole, where the Cloth is, and so attracts no Wind, nor can any Air get into the Stock or Chest where the Cloth is.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 103 The ‘fulling-stocks’,.. are hollow receptacles in which an enormous oaken hammer or stock vibrates up and down, each stock being kept in motion by machinery connected with a steam-engine.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 342 By steeping the cloth in alkaline liquor, and beating it in the fulling stocks.
23. Tanning. (See quot. 1885.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > equipment for softening hides or leather > vat or receptacle
layer1797
softening machine1875
soak1876
stock1882
milla1884
pinwheel1885
wheel vat1885
1882 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 383/2 The softening of these materials is helped and rendered thorough by working them for some time in the stocks after they have been well soaked.
1885 H. R. Procter Text-bk. Tanning 136 The ‘stocks,’..consist of a wooden or metallic box, of peculiar shape, wherein work 2 very heavy hammers, raised alternately by pins in a wheel, and let fall upon the hides, which they force up against the side of the box with a sort of kneading action.
IV. The more massive portion of an instrument or weapon; usually, the body or handle, to which the working part is attached.† 27. = saddle-tree n. Obsolete.
24.
a. The heavy crossbar (originally wooden) of an anchor.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > stock of anchor
anchor stock1295
stock1346
1346 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/25/7) m. 2 Pro ij hankerstokkes duorum ancor' ejusdem navis.
1407 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 44/11 (1) m. 3 In duobus ancrestokes inde faciendis.
1485 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 185 Item pd by me for iij hanker stolkes..xv d.
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 379 Item, for thre geestis to be stokkis to ankyrris, and other grath to the schippis,—s.
1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. B And so the 4 Anchors and their foure stockes will come to 18 0 0.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xv. 29/1 The Anchor stock, is the peece of tymber fitly wrought and fastned at the nutts, below the eye, crossing the flookes.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. vi. 345 Fixing two..anchors into one stock.
1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 50 The circling Capstan merrily runs round, Until the Stock a proper height is found.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 45 The stock of the anchor is made of oak.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 657.
b. Nautical phrase, stock and fluke.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount > the whole lot
every whita1450
every stitch?a1500
the devil and all1543
prow and poop1561
Christ-cross-row1579
every snip1598
thread and thrum1600
boodle1625
hair and hoof1705
rag-tag (also rag, tag) and bob-tail1725
tutti quanti1772
lot1791
lock, stock, and barrel1824
stock and fluke1825
the whole boiling1837
box and dice1839
the whole caboodlea1848
sub-cheese1859
the whole kit and boiling (boodle, caboodle, cargo)1859
the whole jingbang1866
the whole hypothec1871
the whole ball of wax1882
the whole (entire) shoot1884
(at) every whip-stitch1888
work1899
issue1919
guntz1958
full monty1979
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Nov. 456 The new owner of the estate..bought it ‘stock and fluke’ as the sailors call it; that is to say, that he bought movables and the whole.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stock and Fluke, the whole of anything.
25. = headstock n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts
yokeOE
stirrup1341
cod1379
bell-string1464
frame1474
stock1474
ear1484
poop1507
bell-wheel1529
skirt1555
guarder1583
imp1595
tab1607
jennet1615
pluck1637
bell-rope1638
cagea1640
cannon1668
stilt1672
canon1688
crown1688
sound-bow1688
belfry1753
furniture1756
sounding bow1756
earlet1833
brima1849
busk-board1851
headstock1851
sally hole1851
slider1871
mushroom head1872
sally beam1872
pit1874
tolling-lever1874
sally-pin1879
sally-pulley1901
sally-wheel1901
1474–5 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 20 It' in tymber for the stokke and uphongyng of the same [bell] xxij d.
1526–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 340 For mendyng of the Stokke of the Saunctus bell iiij d.
1706 in J. Watson Jedburgh Abbey (1894) 91 [To see if the bells] be sound in their hanging upon the stocks.
1871 W. Wigram Change-ringing Disentangled 1 He will see that it [the bell] is fastened to the under-side of a block of wood, called the ‘stock’.
1906 J. J. Raven Bells 291 The bells are rung from the stock, without wheel or rope.
26. The ‘hub’ of a wheel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > parts of wheels > hub or nave
naveeOE
nathea1325
nave stocka1333
navelc1425
navel-stockc1425
stock1585
hub1652
wheel-nave1707
wheel-stock1835
wheel-head1845
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 268/1 Modiolus rotæ,..the stocke or naue wherein the spokes be fastened.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 409/2 Stock, the nave of a wooden wheel.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 206/1 The stock or hub..should be in growth as near as possible the size required.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle
saddle-boweOE
arsonc1300
saddle skirt1361
saddle-tree1364
skirtc1400
saddle panel1465
stock-tree1470
stock1497
pommela1500
tree1535
pillion cloth1540
port1548
saddle stock1548
pilch1552
bolster1591
cantle1591
shank-pilliona1599
pillowc1600
pad1604
crutch1607
sivet1607
saddle crutcha1614
saddle eaves1663
saddle tore1681
burr1688
head1688
narve1688
saddle seat1688
sidebar1688
torea1694
quarter1735
bands of a saddle1753
witherband1764
withers1764
peak1775
pillion-stick1784
boot-housing1792
saddle flap1798
saddle lap1803
fork1833
flap1849
horn1849
skirting1852
hunting-horn1854
head-plate1855
saddle horn1856
cantle bar1859
leaping-horn1859
straining1871
stirrup-bar1875
straining-leather1875
spring tree1877
leaping-head1881
officer-tree1894
monkey1911
monkey-strap1915
thigh roll1963
straining-web-
1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 372 Item, agane Ȝule, to turs our the Month, for ane stok of ane sadil.
1553 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 175 Item,..for making of the stok and sadill heirto.
28.
a. The wooden portion of a musket or fowling-piece; the handle of a pistol.
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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
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 6 §2 Any handgune..shalbe in the stock and gonne of the lenghe of one hole Yarde.
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 10 Raising up the crooked end of the stocke to his breast.
1641 J. Langton in Lismore Papers (1888) 2nd Ser. V. 8 Our men..knocked some of them in the heade with the stocks of theire peeces.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) viii. §4. 50 Walnut..is of singular account..with the Gunsmith for Stocks.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 305 The Captain.. knock'd him down with the Stock of his Musket.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 243 As for Stocks, Walnut Tree or Ash are very good for Use.
1830 Hobart Town Almanack 115 My trusty Manton, which falling under his right side,..was broken in the handsome stock.
1860 All Year Round 1 Sept. 500 The stock is divided into the nose-cap, the upper, middle, and lower bands, the swell [etc.].
1879 Martini-Henry Rifle Exerc. 42 Grasping the stock with the left hand.
b. Phrase, lock, stock, and barrel: see lock, stock, and barrel at lock n.2 Phrases 7): the whole of a thing; also adv., every whit, entirely.
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1817 W. Scott Let. 29 Oct. (1933) V. 4 Like the High-landman's gun, she wants stock, lock, and barrel, to put her into repair.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. viii. 140 Even the capital likewise—stock, lock, and barrel, all went.
1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead III. iii. iii. 94 ‘Cut the whole concern, stock, lock and barrel’, said his lordship.
1905 Times 7 July 10/3 [Sir George White said:] He was not a Scotsman; he was..lock, stock, and barrel an Irishman.
29. The handle (of a whip, fishing-rod, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > handle
handleeOE
helvec897
haftc1000
steal1377
start1380
handa1400
helmc1430
handlinga1450
pull1551
grasp1561
hilt1574
cronge1577
hold1578
tab1607
manubrium1609
tree1611
handfast1638
stock1695
handing1703
gripe1748
stem1796
handhold1797
grip1867
1695 London Gaz. No. 3044/4 All sorts of Whips, the Stocks of the best Greenland Whalebone.
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 9 The best manner of making…Rods. The best time to provide stocks is in the winter solstice.
1882 R. L. Stevenson New Arabian Nights II. 149 The stock of a lance even rattled along the outer surface of the door.
30. The attachment of a seal.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] > attaching of seal > material attaching seal
double queuec1475
labela1513
sealing-thread1591
tag1688
stock1711
1711 London Gaz. No. 4815/4 Two Seals with Gold Stocks.
31. The part of a plough to which the share is attached.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > part bearing share
heada1325
stock1578
tongue1591
1578 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 133 One new stocke and two plow cloutes, [etc.].
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 318 Three Holes in the upper part of the Stock.
32. (More explicitly bit-stock.) A carpenter's boring tool: = brace n.2 6.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for wood
stock1794
flute-bit1874
flute-tool1887
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 152 Stock. A wooden instrument to bore holes with, by fixing a bit in the lower end, and a pin with a round head in the other end.
1812 P. Nicholson Mech. Exercises 126 Stock and Bits.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stock and bit, an instrument for boring wood, used by carpenters; a centre-bit.
33. An adjustable wrench for holding screw-cutting dies.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > screwdrivers, wrenches, spanners > [noun] > spanner or wrench > other spanners or wrenches
tap wrench1815
doghook1847
stock1862
stud box1867
socket wrench1905
Allen key1910
wheel brace1920
tongs1922
nut driver1939
spud wrench1939
torque wrench1948
nut runner1958
Mole1959
skate key1962
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 6139 Wrought-iron welded tubes; stocks, taps, and dies.
1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 61 The die which cuts the thread is made in two halves, and is placed in a ‘stock,’ or holder, fitted with an adjusting screw... A set of stocks and dies consists of one stock with a series of interchangeable dies to cut threads of different sizes.
34. The shorter and thicker of the two pieces composing a T-square or an L-square.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > drawing instruments
sweep1680
bow1706
trammel1725
stock1815
cyclograph1823
trainer1848
set square1854
stereograph1877
tracer1878
philograph1892
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 699 A thin flat ruler called the blade, let perpendicularly into the middle of another piece called the stock... The blade being laid on the paper, and the stock brought up close to the edge of the board, it is very readily used in ruling.
1857 W. Binns Elem. Treat. Orthogr. Projection i. 6 Place the stock of the T square against the left-hand side of the drawing-board.
1902 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 15 This of course can only be the case when the blade and the stock have their respective inner and outer surfaces perfectly parallel.
35. In a plane, the block in which the plane-iron is fitted. †Also, the block carrying the axe of a ‘maiden’ or beheading instrument.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading > block
heading blockc1480
block1541
stock1639
head block1873
society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > stock
plane stock1611
stock1815
1639 in J. J. Cartwright Chapters Hist. Yorks. (1872) 339 They let runne the stock wth ye hatchet in.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 107 The block of wood in which the blade or chisel of a plane is fixed, is called the stock.
36. The head of a brush (in which the bristles are inserted). Also, the wooden head of a wool-card.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom > head of
stock1835
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > comb > parts of
leaf1688
stock1835
porcupine tooth1845
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 145 [The two rows of teeth] are fixed into a wooden stock or head c, which..has a handle d fixed into it.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 84 [article Brush-maker] The wood, or ‘stock’, thus shaped has afterwards a number of small holes drilled through it at regular distances.
37. The wooden case of a lock.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > part of lock > case
main-plate1678
box1686
stock1833
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §84 And..eight-inch fine plate stock locks (locks with a wooden back, or stock).
38. Flax-dressing. One of the beaters in a scutching-mill. (Cf. A. 22).
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > beating > machine for > parts of
stock1780
1780 A. Young Tour Ireland i. 190 Two beetling cylinders,..a pair of stocks, a washing wheel.
1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) II. 234 Short arms, to which are nailed the stocks, which are parallelogram shaped blades of hard wood, with the edges partially sharpened.
V. Concrete senses of uncertain or mixed origin.† 39. A mouse-trap. [Compare mouse stock n. at mouse n. Compounds 2a and Norwegian stok trap (for birds).] Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > pest control > [noun] > mouse-trap
mousefalleOE
stockc1175
mouse stocka1225
mousecatcha1382
mousetrap1440
Samson's post1577
the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] > trap for vermin
falleOE
mousefalleOE
stockc1175
mouse stocka1225
mousecatcha1382
mousetrap1440
rat trap1469
Samson's post1577
whipa1589
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 53 Þurh þe sweote smel of þe chese, he bicherreð monie mus to þe stoke.
40. A stocking. Now only dialect. See netherstock n., upperstock n..The upper stock was the upper and wider part, and the nether stock the lower part, of the hose. Without the defining word, stock denoted the netherstock n. or stocking.
ΘΚΠ
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
1456–7 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 208 Meam subtuniculam de harden cloth, cum stokkes de correo.
1530 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expences Henry VIII (1827) 94 Euery one of them ij payer of hosen and ij payer of stockis.
1546 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 27 Tua elnis fyne purpure welwote to be ane pair of stokes of hois to the said James..viij li.
1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 308 Ane pair of almany stokkis of blak sating, drawin out with taffeteis.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 91/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I He hit vpon the letter, bare it away in the heele of his stocke.
1592 R. Greene Vision sig. C His legs were small, Hosd within a stock of red.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvi. 253 Before the costly Coach, and silken stock came in.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 64 With a linnen stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on the other. View more context for this quotation
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 137 Now then, I am ready for going—stock, shoes, and gaiter.
41. A swarm of bees. [Cf. Dutch stok, German stock, a hive; but connection is doubtful on account of the difference in sense. Cf. however quot. 1675, where the word appears to have the Dutch sense.]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees
swarmc725
stock1568
1568 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (MS) There is a swarme found by Wylson and a seruante..seruaunt to haue the fyrste swarme and Wilson the next and so the stocke remayne to the house.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 177v You may soone learne where theyr [sc. bees'] stockes [L. examina] be.
1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) ii. 89 In rugged Bark the Bees conceal their Stocks [L. examína].
1675 J. Gedde New Discov. Bee-houses 30 A stock full of Bees and Honey.
1679 M. Rusden Further Discov. Bees 68 A swarm in May, or June, is called a Stock at Michaelmas.
1793 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 5 287 The greatest number of Stocks of Bees, not fewer than thirty.
1879 A. I. Root ABC Bee Culture 158/1 Our pure Italian stocks could have been opened, and their queens removed, scarcely disturbing the cluster.
1930 W. Herrod-Hempsall Bee-keeping I. vi. 315 A ‘Swarm’ is a cluster of bees and their queen only; a ‘Colony’ consists of the bees and queen living on combs containing brood..and food; a ‘Stock’ includes the latter together with the home in which the bees are residing.
1980 R. J. Howe & W. E. Howe Pract. Beekeeping vi. 49 When a stock of ten frames is broken up into a number of nuclei, the flying bees from these nuclei will return to their old stand.
42. The portion of a tally which was given to the person making a payment to the Exchequer.The counterpart kept in the Exchequer was called the foil or counterstock. In Anglo-Latin the terms were stipes and folium. Cf. French souche (lit. tree-trunk), the longer of the two portions of a tally, hence also the counterfoils in a register or cheque-book.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > part of tally
countertailc1430
countertally1440
swatch?a1527
stock1642
counterfoil1706
counterstock1706
1642 C. Vernon Considerations Excheqver 44 The said stocke is delivered to the party that paid the money for his discharge, and the foile is cast into the Chamberlaines chest.
1658 P. Osborne Pract. Exchequer Court 98 The joyners of the tallies..do see if the stock and the file do agree in hand, letter, and joyning.
1671 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 5) ii. 101 The Counterfoyles of the Talleys..so exactly ranged..that they may be found out, to be joyned with their respective Stock or Tally.
1714 F. Atterbury Eng. Advice to Freeholders 4 Boroughs are rated on Royal Exchange, like Stocks and Tallies.
43. [Short for stock-gillyflower n.]
a. Any plant of the cruciferous genus Matthiola.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > stock-gillyflower and allies > [noun]
stock-gillyflower1530
castle-gilliflower1578
Guernsey violet1578
stock1664
Brompton1724
ten-week stock1785
night-scented stock1849
1664 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 208 To smell the sucklins and the stocks and to see the new trees grow.
1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 24 The..lavish Stock that scents the Garden round.
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xix. 347 The French stock is very floriferous, and most apt to come double.
1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis vii, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 450 And stocks in fragrant blow.
1894 Bridges Garden Sept. in Poems (1912) 305 Stocks Of courtly purple, and aromatic phlox.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xix. 237 The sweet night-flowering stock.
b. Virginian stock: the cruciferous plant Malcolmia maritima, having flowers somewhat resembling those of the stock-gillyflower.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers
garden rocket1548
queen's gillyflower1573
cuckoo-flower1578
damask violet1578
dame's-violet1578
rogue's gilliflower1578
wild passerage1578
lady's smock1593
Canterbury bells1597
close-sciences1597
sea stock-gillyflower1597
cardamine1609
melancholic gentleman1629
melancholy gentleman1629
Whitsun gilliflower1656
Hesperis1666
rocket1731
queen's violet1733
queen's July-flower1760
Virginian stock1760
spinka1774
damewort1776
virgin-stock1786
pink1818
sea-stock1849
clown's mustard1861
rock beauty1870
milksile-
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 328 Stock, Virginian, Hesperis.
1844 Lady G. C. Fullerton Ellen Middleton (1854) iii. xx. 49 The delicate lilac flowers of the Virginian Stock.
44.
a. A kind of stiff close-fitting neckcloth, formerly worn by men generally, now only in the army.In the first quot. a1684 apparently the collar-band of a shirt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neckerchief > types of
rail1482
whisk1654
neck stock1681
stocka1684
steenkirk1694
neckatee1706
bird's eye?1775
belcher1805
yellow man1812
starcher1818
choker1848
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 449 The Nobility [of Venice]..also weare their Collar open, to shew the diamond button of the Stock of their Shirt.
1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 454 He lay in his Stock, which was so tight about his Neck, that it near strangled him.
1742 Whyte's Poems in Fairholt Costume (1860) 591 The stock with buckle made of plate Has put the cravat out of date.
1753 London Mag. Oct. 480/2 Let the stock be well plaited, in fanciful forms.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Stock, something made of linen; a cravat; a close neckcloth.
1764 Boston Evening Post in Alice M. Earle Costume Col. Times (1894) 169 Newest fashion'd plaited Stocks.
1781 W. Cowper Let. 23 May (1979) I. 481 My Neck cloths being all worn out, I intend to wear Stocks... In that case I shall be obliged to you if you will buy me a handsome Stock buckle.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Stock, a part of an officer's dress which consists generally of black silk or velvet, and is worn round the neck... The soldier's stock is of black ribbed leather... Red stocks were formerly worn in the guards.
1806 R. Wilson Jrnl. 11 Feb. in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) I. 307 The issue of an order this morning for every officer in the garrison [of Cape Town] to wear black leather stocks!
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. i. 14 He had the same..suit of light brown clothes,..the same stock, with its silver buckles.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 8 An old stock, without a vestige of shirt collar, ornamented his neck.
1840 J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet x. 126 His shirt collar was turned down over a narrow, horsehair stock.
a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) ii. 131 The disclosure of the long neck by the narrow bit of muslin stock.
1868 Queen's Regul. Army §604 g The wearing of Stocks may be dispensed with on the line of March.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 21 But I fell away with the Corp'ral's stock, and the best of the Corp'ral's shirt.
b. An article of clerical attire, consisting of a piece of black silk or stuff (worn on the chest and secured by a band round the neck) over which the linen collar is fastened.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > artefacts > vestments > neck and shoulder garb > [noun] > stock
rabat1861
stock1883
rabbi1909
1883 Offic. Yearbk. Ch. Eng. p. iv. (advt.) Clerical Collars and Stocks... Stuff Stocks 3/6; Silk do., 5/-; Stock Bands 5/6 per dozen.
45. The udder of a cow. Now dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > (miscellaneous) parts of > udder
stock1608
elder1673
milk-vessel1842
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 218 Afterward that Cowes vdder or stocke dryeth vppe, and neuer more yeeldeth any milke.
1917 N.E.D. at Stock Mod. (Kent), This cow has a very large stock but I don't know that she'll give over-much milk.
46. A rabbit-burrow. Now dialect. Cf. stop n.2 24.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren
clapperc1400
cunnigar1424
warrena1425
coneygarth1429
coney-close?1472
coney hole?c1475
berry1486
coney holda1500
coney-clapper1530
coney yard1532
coneyry1570
coney burrow1575
coney gratec1580
coney-gat1591
coney green1599
coney warren1616
coney ground1617
rabbit hole1667
stop1669
rabbit burrow1723
stock1736
rabbit warren1766
stab1838
warrener1864
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 225 The Bucks will kill their young ones, if they can come at them; and therefore Nature hath so decreed it, that the Does prevent them by stopping or covering their Stocks or Nests with Earth or Gravel.
1876 Surrey Gloss.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words
VI. A fund, store.The senses grouped under this head are not found in the other Germanic languages except by adoption from English. Their origin is obscure, and possibly several different lines of development may have blended. Thus the application of the word to a trader's capital may partly involve the notion of a trunk or stem (branch I) from which the gains are an outgrowth, and partly that of ‘fixed basis’ or ‘foundation’ (branch II): cf. fund n.1 Sense A. 47 may be derived immediately from that of ‘money-box’, and have given rise to uses coincident with senses of different origin. The application to cattle is primarily a specific use of the sense ‘store’, but the notion of ‘race’ or ‘breed’ (sense A. 3) has had some share in its development.† 47. A sum of money set apart to provide for certain expenses; a fund. Obsolete.† 48. figurative.1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres ii. iv. sig. G2v And on the hazard of a bad exchange Haue venterd all the stocke of life beside.a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) v. iv. 144 To prepare our own Souls more and more to receive of his Liberality,..that that stock which he is pleased to impart to us may not lie dead within us.1665 R. Howard & J. Dryden Indian-queen ii, in R. Howard Four New Plays 149 Why shou'd you waste the stock of those fair Eyes?† b. to spend upon the stock: to trench on one's capital. Obsolete.† c. An endowment for a son; a dowry for a daughter. Also figurative. Obsolete.† d. in stock: possessed of capital. out of stock: without means. (Cf. in, out of funds.)† e. fig. phrase. upon the stock of: on the ground or basis of. Obsolete. Very frequent in Jeremy Taylor.† 49. † b. public stock: the property held for public purposes by a nation, municipality, or community.† d. The aggregate wealth of a nation. Obsolete.† 50. † 51. Money, or a sum of money, invested by a person in a partnership or commercial company. Obsolete.figurative.1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. ii. 434 When I consider that I do hereby advance a Stock towards the Discovery of the Cause, whether Celestial or no, I shall find some Mitigation of Censure.1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 225. ⁋2 All..Deviations from the Design of pleasing each other when we meet, are derived from Interlopers in Society, who want Capacity to put in a Stock among regular Companions.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose
box1389
packa1393
stock1463
bank1559
fund1660
fond1664
nest-egg1801
money fund1860
cookie jar1936
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 17 A stoke to fynde yerly ij taperis lyght.
1547–8 in E. Green Somerset Chantries (1888) 10 Redy money gyven by Robte Holcombe to remayne in stocke to the saide use [sc. lights].
1548 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 126 All guylde stokkes whatsoeuer their be withyn this citie shalbe employde towardes the fyndyng feyeng of the rever of the same citie.
1548 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 478 There is a stoke of xxij s. yeven to the finding of a light in the said chapell.
1553 Inv. in Ann. Dioc. Lichf. (1863) 7 xxj s. which remayned as a stoke to finde tapers in the churche.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe sig. Aijv That reuerend Elder of your Church, who beeing credited with the stocke of the poore,..was compelled to keepe it to himselfe, because [etc.].
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 156 I feare mee, the Stocke that was appoynted for paying of me, will goe some other way.
1645 in E. Arber Transcript Reg. Company of Stationers 1554–1640 (1875) I. App. 590 The Committee..resolved upon the Companies sudden setting upon the printing the Bible by a new Stock.
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. a8 Venturing a stock to fetch Aurum Horisontalish from the East Indies.
1676 Earl of Essex in C. E. Pike Essex Papers (1913) II. 55 There will be a surplus of near 3000 l, [MS. 3000d] which may be kept in stock for any contingency.
?1690 Vindic. New Eng. in Andros Tracts (1869) II. 42 To make a Voluntary Subscription for a stock to bear the Charges of a Triall at Law.
1718 Mem. Life J. Kettlewell ii. xxv. 127 He set aside for a standing Stock..One Hundred Pound.
1881 C. R. Rivington Rec. Stationers' Co. 18 There were originally five different trading stocks, called respectively the Ballad Stock, the Bible Stock, the Irish Stock, the Latin Stock, and the English Stock.]
a. A capital sum to trade with or to invest; capital as distinguished from revenue, or principal as distinguished from interest. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > provision of capital > capital or principal
cattlec1330
chief moneyc1390
principal1390
chattel1502
stock1526
capital1569
capital stock1569
nest-egg1801
corpus1844
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Ii This ryches he hath gyuen to vs as a stocke to occupy in our dayly exercise, for the profyte of our owne soules.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. L Howe can ye now get thrifte, the stocke beyng gon? Whiche is thonely thyng to reyse thryft vpon.
1561 J. Awdelay Fraternitye of Vacabondes 8 Some yong Marchant man or other kynde of Occupier, whose friendes hath geuen them a stock of mony to occupy withall.
1573 New Custome ii. iii. sig. C iijv The heyre Had substanciall reuenewes, his stocke also was faire.
1581 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 435 To..redeliver the same [sc. gold and silver] cunyeit to the said maister Thomas in prentit money, stok and proffite.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. ii. §2. 377 He thinkes that all this is too little for a stock, though it were indeede a good yearlie Income.
1615 J. White 2 Serm. 69 Prisoners, and distressed housholders, yong tradesmen that want stocks: must be thought on.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 39 The reason of this store of pictures, and their cheapnesse proceede from their want of Land, to employ their Stock.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 47 Let each County begin with two thousand Pounds Stock apiece.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 98 The Factors would joyn stock together, and set up our Trade in some other place.
1686 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. II II. vii. 1121 A Master coming to take account of his Servants, among whom he had intrusted a stock of ten pounds.
1694 E. Phillips tr. J. Milton Lett. of State 287 Lest he should lose his Ship and Lading, together with his whole Principal Stock.
1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 8 I hope you will thoroughly weigh with yourself whether you are possessed of a sufficient Stock to enable you to discharge your Duty without repining.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] > spend one's own money
to spend upon the stock1617
to put one's hand in (also into) one's pocket1857
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 199 And lest by spending upon the stocke, my patrimony should be wasted I [etc.].
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 253 That Minister must needs spend upon the stock, that hath no comings in from a constant Trade in his Study.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > endowment > endowment of son or daughter
stock1527
1527 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 17 Item to hyr son Justinean xxli to make hym a stokke wt.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 34 To write and read wel which may be iointly gotten is a prety stocke for a poore boye.
1605 London Prodigall v. i. 400 Why this is well, and toward faire Luce's stocke, heres fortie shillings.
1656 A. Cowley Misc. 5 in Poems Whilst we like younger Brothers, get at best But a small Stock, and must work out the rest.
1686 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1698) III. i. 3 Therefore nothing would satisfie him [the young prodigal] unless he were intrusted with the Stock which was intended for him.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > in impoverished state [phrase] > lacking money
out of cash1593
out of stock1648
stump1828
nary red1849
to be in the hole1890
society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [adjective] > specific capital stock or funds
in stock1648
1648 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 256 In regard yt ye Colledge is wholey out of stocke,..ye chest-keepers wer requested to [etc.].
a1670 S. Collins Present State Russia (1671) xii. 51 This put the man in stock, whereby he began to drive a Trade.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [phrase] > based on
upon the stock of1649
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. vi. 11 He who beleeves upon the onely stock of education, made no election of his faith.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. vii. 33 Upon the same stocke S. Chrysostome chides the people of his Diocese for walking, and laughing and prating in Churches.
1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 292 Few Practical errors in the world are embraced upon the Stock of Conviction, but Inclination.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 89 Which [help] they had no hope to procure but upon the Stock of Alteration of the Government of the Church.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 605/2 The theatre became to me, upon a new stock, the most delightful of recreations.
a. An estate or property that produces income; a person's total property. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land yielding income
rent?a1160
livelihood1438
livinga1450
stock1552
livelihead1590
investment property1832
1552 H. Latimer Serm. St. John Evang. Day (1584) 282 It shall not be a diminishing of theyr stockes, but it shall be rather an increase then a diminishing.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 192 They han great store and thriftye stockes.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 13 Whose land and fee descended orderly Unto the Sonne, with store of other stocks.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 97 The steward of our growing stocke.
c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 69 They, having stocks and famielies, were not willing to march as farre as the Armie.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) ii. 38 If the Stocks of laborious and ingenious Men..should be diminished by a Tax, and transferred to such as do nothing at all, [etc.].
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xiv. 8 An honest heart was almost all his stock.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > public or national property
common good1416
strength1662
public stock1663
national treasure1696
nationality1830
nationalty1830
1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) 115 A poor Widow, who had cast all her living into the publick stock.
1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome (Marcus) iv. 60 The Public Stock was well near exhausted by Verus's Prodigality.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 92 They have a great publick stock belonging to ye Corporation.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 184/2 It appears..that the public stock of the Athenians amounted to 9700 talents.
c. Movable property.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property
feec888
goodOE
chateus1297
moblea1325
farec1330
harness1340
gearc1380
plentiesc1384
goods and cattel1418
pelfa1425
testament1424
movables1428
personals1436
stuff1438
cattle1473
cabow1489
chattel1549
chattel personal1552
goods and chattels1576
luggage1624
corporeals1647
effects1657
chose1670
personalities1753
stock1776
plunder1780
personal effects1818
personalty1827
taonga1863
marbles1864
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 412 The funds or sources of revenue which may peculiarly belong to the sovereign or commonwealth must consist either in stock or in land. View more context for this quotation
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > wealth of a nation, region, or people
stock1640
wealth1667
national treasure1696
1640 Pym in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 22 By which means the Stock of the Kingdom is diminished.
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 154 There is not anything more certain, than that our West-India Trade has greatly enlarged our Stock.
1729 J. Swift Modest Proposal 12 The Nation's stock will be thereby encreased fifty thousand pounds per Annum.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii. 153 If we look to our stock in the Eastern world, our most valuable and systematick acquisitions are made in that quarter.
1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. ii. 92 The whole produce of industry belonging to a country is said to form its stock.
a. The business capital of a trading firm or company. in stock (said of a person): in the position of a partner. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [adverb] > in position of partner
in stock1598
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > provision of capital > capital or principal > types of
stock1598
artificial capital1772
circulating capital1776
natural capital1785
money capital1791
working capital1798
reserve1819
authorized capital1825
current asset1826
loan capital1848
capital asset1851
water1867
capital equipment1893
refugee capital1926
risk capital1927
hot money1936
venture capital1943
risk money1944
exposure1975
1598 P. Henslowe Diary (1961) 323 A Note of all suche bookes as belong to the Stocke.
1613 J. Tapp Path-way to Knowl. 233 Two Marchants are in Company, B putteth in 200 li more then A, B continueth in stocke 5 moneths, and A 7 moneths ½, they gaine one as much as the other; the question is [etc.].
1669 W. Aglionby Present State United Provinces 159 Many..put in different summes, which all together made up six hundred thousand pound, the first stock upon which this [Dutch East India] Company has built its prodigious Encrease.
1694 Coll. Improvem. Husbandry & Trade No. 122. ⁋4 Lately a Company of Gentlemen have made a Stock for Improvement of Tanning with Birch-Bark... Their Tannery is at Holloway.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3303/3 Each Member having Five hundred Pounds in the Stock of the Bank.
1798 C. Hutton Course Math. I. 109 They admit K as a third partner, who brought into stock 2800l.
1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 494 As the state of the money market rendered it unadvisable to increase the Company's capital stock,..the Court applied to the House for such aid as [etc.].
b. In Bookkeeping by Double Entry, the heading (more fully stock account: see Compounds 1f) of the ledger account which summarizes the assets and liabilities of the trader, firm, or company to whom the books belong.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Dvij Then for your Creditor goe to the letter S. and there enter stocke as followeth: Stocke is in folio 2.
1673 J. Collins Introd. Merchants Accts. sig. B3v John Speed Debitor... January 2 To stock owing by him..100 l. 00 s. 00 d.
1673 J. Collins Introd. Merchants Accts. sig. B4 Per contra John Speed Creditor. January 7 By Stock for Three Months rebate [etc.].
1732 J. Clark in B. F. Foster's Double Entry eluc. (1852) Pref. p. iii Let it be supposed that the account of Stock is a real person employed to take care of my estate, and to render an account of the improvement he has made of it.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 589/2 Therefore this accompt is closed, by being debited or credited to or by Stock, for the difference of its sides.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 593/2 Accordingly in your new Journal, the several particulars on the Dr side must all of them be made Drs to Stock.
c1789 Encycl. Brit. III. 368/2 Thirdly, Accounts of Stock, Profit, and Loss.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stock,..20. In book-keeping, the owner or owners of the books.
1852 B. F. Foster Double Entry eluc. (ed. 5) 4 When the assets exceed the debts, Stock or the proprietor is a creditor for the surplus, or, in the event of insolvency debtor for the deficiency.
ΚΠ
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. vi. 13 By reason of the generality of Commerce, the Banks, Adventures, the Common-shares and stocks which most have in the Indian and other Companies, the Wealth doth diffuse it self here in a strange kind of equality.
1685 in W. Mure Select. Family Papers Caldwell (1854) I. 146 The East India Companie..had very little advantage.. which he had reason to know, because he himselfe had a stock in it.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 316 They [the Commons] were no way guilty of the troubles, the Fears, and Publick dangers, which made men withdraw their stocks, and keep their money by them.
52.
a. The subscribed capital of a trading company, or the public debt of a nation, municipal corporation, or the like, regarded as transferable property held by the subscribers or creditors, and subject to fluctuations in market value. Also, in particularized sense, a kind of stock, a particular fund in which money may be invested.In expressions like to buy or sell stocks, the word may be partly an application of sense A. 42, ‘tally’. Cf. quot. 1714 under that sense.In modern British use the application of the word is narrowed; the subscribed capital of a public company is called shares when it is divided into portions of uniform amount, and stock when any desired amount may be bought or sold. In British use, also, when there is no specific indication, stock is usually taken to refer to those portions of the National Debt, the principal of which is not repayable, the government being pledged only to the payment of interest in perpetuity.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock
stock1697
rente1825
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment > money invested
stocka1763
investment1785
lock-up1866
smart money1893
ploughback1939
switch dollar1964
1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn sig. A4v Whether any profit can arise to the Nation by the advance of Stocks.
1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 181 The Bank, and East-India Stock, may fall at least One per Cent.
1714 J. Macky Journey through Eng. I. ix. 113 You will see Fellows, in shabby Cloaths, Selling Ten or Twelve Thousand Pounds in Stock, though perhaps he mayn't be worth at the same time Ten Shillings.
a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1819) 105 Sir William..had a fair estate in land, a large sum of money in the stocks, and [etc.].
1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. i. 29 He is forced to sell stock at a great loss.
1781 D. Hartley Considerations Renewal Bank Charter 18 One hundred pounds of Bank stock is now worth about 110 l.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 16 The fall of stocks.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 71/2 Stocks, a term applied to the various ‘Funds’ which constitute the national debt.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation iii. ii. 437 Though it be true..that four and five per cent. stocks have always borne a lower relative value in the market than three per cent. stock, it is not true that [etc.].
1889 Act 52 & 53 Vict. c. 32 §9 The expression ‘stock’ shall include fully paid-up shares.
1898 W. J. Greenwood Business Pract. 42 Stock, Capital in a lump sum divisible into unequal amounts, large or small, to suit investors, instead of in shares of fixed or equal instalments. English Government Consols are of this kind; also the stocks of some railway companies.
1913 Times 9 Aug. 17/6 Furness stock did not move on the announcement of an interim dividend at the rate of 2 per cent.
b. fig. phrase (colloquial or slang). to take (large etc.) stock in (rarely of)): to be interested in, attach importance to, give credence to. Also to take no stock in.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > believe [verb (intransitive)]
weenc888
believea1225
aglea1325
to give credence toc1395
faithc1438
to add faith to?1483
to give credit to something1533
credit1557
to take (large etc.) stock in (rarely of)1870
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)] > attach importance to
weigh?c1225
chargec1320
set by1393
to attribute (much)1586
to stand upon ——1587
moment1598
to lay weight upon1600
reflecta1616
to take (large etc.) stock in (rarely of)1870
1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy Oct. 575/1 The ‘chance’ theory..is..calculated to inflict..pecuniary loss upon any community that takes stock in it.
1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 378 He..did not take stock in all the remarkable yields of butter reported in grass and hay.
1878 J. T. Trowbridge Guy Vernon in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 216 All which I do most potently believe, Taking large stock in Natural Selection.
1885 Homiletic Rev. Aug. 134 Educated, and I believe scientific men, took stock in it [sc. Blue Glass theory of cure].
1891 B. Harte First Family Tasajara v I never took stock of that story.
1902 Daily Chron. 1 Apr. 6/3 There are many tales of the manifestation of natural gas in Sussex, which I do not take much stock in.
1903 N.Y. Evening Post 17 Sept. 6 We take no stock whatever in the stories that the President was unaware of the effects of the rules which he signed.
c. figurative. Reputation, esteem, credit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > [noun]
nameOE
wordOE
honestya1382
rumoura1387
recommendation1433
wealc1500
wellc1500
credit1529
repute1598
renowna1616
recommends1623
commendation1631
character1649
merit1752
stock1930
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 334/4 He found British stock very high in North Germany.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June (recto rear cover) The stock of the R.A.F. is high in the Soviet.
1955 Times 24 June 10/2 General Perón's stock still seemed to be rising to-day as the country gradually returned to normal conditions.
1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason viii. 237 This minor triumph sent up the personal stock of Philby.
53. † b. Scots Law. stock and teind: the gross produce of a farm, fishery, etc., without deduction of the tithe. Obsolete.
a. A collective term for the implements (dead stock) and the animals (livestock) employed in the working of a farm, an industrial establishment, etc. Also (Railways): = rolling stock n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farm-stock
stock1519
steelbow1532
strength1594
farm stock1680
stockinga1732
farming stock1749
dead stock1836
1519 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 106 That my sonne..have my ferme of Lenwyke..with the stocke theruppon.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 214 The Stock being exhausted one Year, left little for the supply of Tillage, Husbandry, or Increase for the next.
1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xliv. 324 Cattle..bear a much lower price than corn, which requires more art, labour, and stock to raise it.
1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 140 The costs of rents, of taxes, of agricultural stock, and of labourers' wages, are much less now than heretofore in our memory they have been.
1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 26 Live and dead stock that go or are taken on board.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 246 The tenant was to find his own stock and tools.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 52 Colliery stock comprises the establishment of engines, waggons, horses, and materials of every description requisite to carry on a colliery.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. v. 658 Inspectors, who report on the sufficiency of the works and stocks of railways.
1914 H. Walker in C. F. Klapper Herbert Walker's Railway (1973) 108 A great deal of older stock continued to be lettered in Southern style, but using up the South Eastern ‘Wellington brown’ paint.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farm produce
yearc1384
yieldingc1405
yieldc1440
birtha1500
newinga1549
stock and teind1574
yieldance1641
produce1725
produit net1774
cropa1825
farm store1848
out-take1866
agriproduct1969
1574 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1586, 367/2 Que salina esset libera a decimis, eo quod decime nunquam solite sunt separari, sed una lie stok et teind intromissa sunt.
1588 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 280 Baith stok and teind thairof.
1651 in Agnew Hered. Sheriffs Galloway (1893) II. 73 Salcharie pays in stock and teind thretty bolls victual, 300 marks money.]
c. = stock-car n. 2. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
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
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 11 Oct. b24/1 The Philadelphia district will be well represented when the 100-mile National Championship, for sportsman stocks, gets the green flag at the Langhorne Speedway, Sunday.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. c 12/5 Tucson Dragway will run its weekly racing program today, with the junior pro stocks..topping the racing.
54.
a. spec. = livestock n.; the animals on a farm; also, a collective term for horses, cattle, and sheep bred for use or profit.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock
feec900
auchtOE
orfOE
avers1292
storea1300
bestialc1350
cattlea1400
ware1422
quickc1450
goods1472
stock?1523
chattel1627
live goods1635
team1655
creature1662
livestocka1687
living stock1690
farming stock1749
farm animal1805
fat-stock1881
the world > food and drink > farming > [noun] > farm-stock > live
stock?1523
travelling stock1842
daer-stock1875
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxix It is conuenyent that he reyre two oxe calues, and two cowe calues at the leest, to vpholde his stocke.
1608 S. Rowlands Humors Looking Glasse (1872) 15 This poore man had a Cow twas all his stocke.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvii. 220 The people..are his Heard, his Cattell, the Stock upon his ground.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 348 They keep stocks of tame Deer.
1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 4 I frequently rode out with him in a Morning to look at his Stock.
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 347 Stock, livestock.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 228 Drovers are now buying lean stock briskly at good prices.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 155 The proofs he had given of his skill in managing stock.
1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm §4065 (1855) II. 240/1 Salted hay is much relished by all kinds of stock.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer ix But few stock were visible on the plain.
b. Applied to slaves.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > collectively
string1744
stock1828
slaveage1831
slave-class1840
thirl-folk1871
thrall-folk1887
1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stock, in the West Indies, the slaves of a plantation.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 41 Her [Virginia's] revenue is chiefly derived from the rearing of slaves as stock for the southern market.
55. † b. Complement of population; also, a large number (of persons). Obsolete.
a. A quantity (of something specified, whether material or immaterial) accumulated for future use; a store or provision to be drawn upon as occasion requires. Phrase, to lay in a stock.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply
breastOE
store1297
teata1382
sponge1603
resource1611
fund1628
quarry1630
stock1638
fond1685
feeder1817
stockpile1942
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store
store1487
store1520
reserving1530
staple1549
forestore1556
conserve1586
budget1597
magazine1615
stock1638
stowaway1913
dump1915
bank1918
stockpile1942
1638 F. Rous Heavenly Acad. i. 4 Let him..gather a stock of them, and lay them up for his use.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xi. 126 A Prince (as writers report) having a sufficient stock of valour in himself, but little happie in expressing it.
a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 391 By making this agreement with them he put them into such a stock of Reputation, that [etc.].
1693 C. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vii. 137 But oh, what stock of Patience wants the Fool, Who wasts his Time and Breath in Teaching School!
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 142 When he has acquir'd to himself a good stock of reputation perhaps he will not envy ours.
1728 J. Gay Let. to Swift 16 May I..am in hopes to lay in a stock of health.
1738 Common Sense (1739) II. 112 She dyes, alters, and turns her little Stock of Finery into all the Changes which Fancy and Affectation produce in every Brain of Quality.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 109. ⁋1 You have not yet exhausted the whole stock of human infelicity.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 133 When..a stock of provisions sufficient to support them the whole way, would be more than they could carry,..they [etc.].
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 14 I wanted a Stock of Words.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 221 That stock of general truth, for the branches of which they contended with their blood. View more context for this quotation
1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 305 It is frequently observed in the inoculated cow-pox. I have seen it..after I had been using matter from the same stock for upwards of three years.
1812 P. B. Shelley Devil's Walk xvi For he is fat,..How vast his stock of calf!
1843 J. Pycroft Hints to Freshmen 16 Lay in a stock of Bryant's Regalias and Castle's Sylvas, to acquire condition in your absence.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 228 The stock of cannon balls was almost exhausted.
1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 81 An ever-increasing stock of glass negatives.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > [noun]
erd-folka1325
furniture1526
inhabitation1588
population1612
peopling1622
stock1668
populace1687
habitancya1859
tenantrya1871
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude > of individuals, people
un-i-fohOE
felec1175
power1489
camp-royal1593
numbers1597
crowd1654
stock1668
somedeal1851
1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 31 With us, after that with long Civil Wars the Land was half unpeopled, so as till of late years, it came not to his full stock of People again.
1674 T. Lower in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. (1913) July 144 Seeinge such stockes of Quakers did resort to him.
c. Mining. (See quot. 1709.)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > material taken from quarry
quarrela1400
rockstone?1545
pit stone1659
stock1709
banker1853
key block1881
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > ore > [noun] > pile of
stock1709
monton1858
stockpile1872
1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland xv. 85 To see that rich Vein, and the Stock of Ore upon the Bank, which was like a little Mountain.
1886 G. P. Merrill in Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. ii. (1889) 525 Stock, the useful rock taken from a quarry.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Stock, the material removed from a quarry which is of suitable size to be worked into marketable articles.
56.
a. The aggregate of goods, or of some specified kind of goods, which a trader has on hand as a provision for the possible future requirements of customers.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > stock
stuff1560
stock1696
stock-in-trade1775
1696–7 Act 8 & 9 Will. III c. 7 §10 The several Stockes of Paper Parchment Pastboard or Vellum.
1736 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 591/2 They all brew great Quantities, which they keep by them as a Stock in Hand.
1814 W. Scott Let. 14 Oct. (1932) III. 505 That having resolved, as they are aware, to relinquish publishing, you only wish to avail yourselves of this offer to the extent of helping off some of your stock.
1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. ii. 21 She might look through her father's stock many times.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 112 A large depôt of arms had been established in the Tower; and it was known to some in the trade, that of this warlike stock the government were desirous to dispose.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxv. 314 The sculptors of those days had stocks of such funereal emblems in hand.
1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables v. 91 ‘We must renew our stock, Cousin Hepzibah!’ cried the little saleswoman.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 167 We have not cared to keep on hand a larger stock than we could dispose of in the season.
1881 W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy i. 21 You are in trade?.. So am I. Wholesale. What's your stock? Tal. Mine's cheese.
1885 Manch. Examiner 3 June 5/3 The market is reported to be glutted, and the production has of late been largely going into stock.
1899 Daily News 1 Nov. 3/1 The authorities at Enfield say that they are well supplied with these guns out at the Cape, and that they are working for stock.
b. take stock n. In commercial use, to make an inventory of the merchandise, furniture, etc. in one's own (rarely in another's) possession, recording its quantity and present value. Hence figurative, to make a careful estimate of one's position with regard to resources, prospects, or the like. to take stock of: to reckon up, evaluate; also colloquial, to scrutinize (a person) with suspicion or interest.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > estimate [verb (intransitive)]
deemc1384
to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395
counta1400
thinka1400
reputatec1450
reckon1567
weigh1573
repute1579
esteem1583
censure1592
take stock1736
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > with regard to resources
mustera1640
to take stock of1864
1736 Country Jrnl. or Craftsman 14 Aug. [Innkeeper to Exciseman.] Goodmorrow..Mr. Gage... I hope you have no Information against Me... Did you not take Stock but last Night?
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 186 How vague and general these [thoughts] are even on objects of Sense, the few who at a mature age have seriously set about the discipline of their faculties, and have honestly taken stock, best know by recollection of their own state.
1826 New Monthly Mag. 16 19 It may therefore be worth while at this commencement of a new year for us to balance accounts with our readers, and, in the trader's phrase, to ‘take stock’.
1840 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Ess. ⁋7 The business of the servant of the Company was not, as now, to conduct the judicial, financial, and diplomatic business of a great country, but to take stock [etc.].
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. xv. 226 One day, being at a place called the Escurial, I took stock, as the tradesmen say, and found I possessed the sum of eighty dollars won by playing at cards.
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) To take stock of one, to scrutinize narrowly one whom you have reason to suspect.
1867 W. Johnson in Farrar Ess. Lib. Educ. (1867) 333 You will find the historian taking stock of human knowledge for the end of the Middle Ages.
?1881 Suppl. Voyle's Mil. Dict. 36/2 A combatant officer appointed to ‘take stock’, either at home or abroad, is entitled to receive extra pay of 5s. a day.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. i. 166 It is, perhaps,..occasionally well to take stock of our mental experience.
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird ii How is it that you who are so sharp could not contrive to spot him when you took stock of the passengers?
1893 Times 30 May 9/3 It is always the custom with practical politicians to take stock of what has been done..and what can be done.
1896 Notes & Queries 8th Ser. 9 158/2 A narrow squint window at the back of one of them enabled its occupant to take stock of any one who might knock at the door of his neighbour.
c. in stock: in the possession of the trader.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [phrase] > in stock
in stock1618
1618 in J. Charnock Hist. Mar. Archit. (1801) II. 237 There will remaine in stock at Deptford 738 t. 14 c. 0 q. 9 lb.
1891 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 14 Mar. 44/1 The defendant had about forty copies of the impression in stock which he desired to sell.
1898 W. J. Greenwood Commerc. Corr. (ed. 2) 3 I intend to dispose of the whole of the goods in stock.
d. Theatre. A stock company; repertory. Chiefly U.S.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > types of company
commonwealth1811
fit-up1864
stock company1864
repertory company1885
road company1885
stock1916
playshop1926
repertory1933
theatre workshop1945
rep1959
1916 Variety 27 Oct. 12/1 The Alcazar stock is enjoying satisfactory business.
1933 M. Lincoln Oh! Definitely vii. 73 ‘He had been getting three pounds a week in stock’ but would ‘take two-ten for town’.
1937 Daily Tel. 14 Aug. 9/1 No money will induce them [sc. good actors] to bury themselves in Stratford..under ‘stock’ conditions.
1962 Listener 16 Aug. 242/2 Between her junior and senior years in college..she played summer stock.
57.
a. The liquor made by boiling meat (with or without vegetables, etc.) and used as a foundation for soup.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor
brotha1000
browisa1300
decoction1398
browet1399
juicea1425
liquorc1430
brooc1440
breea1475
brewis1526
decoct1551
gammon essence1706
stock1730
pot-liquor1742
white stock1806
poêlée1824
blanc1845
fond1928
1730 C. Carter Compl. Pract. Cook 1 A good Stock of strong Broth Well made, and good Gravies well drawn off, are very principal Ingredients in the Composing of all Made-Dishes of boil'd Meats.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 78 An Oyster Soop. Your Stock must be made of any Sort of Fish the Place affords.
1752 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifery (new ed.) 134 You must make your stock the day before you use it.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 169 Its decoction forms an excellent stock for various dishes.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vi. 36 Stock for soup became fragrant in the air of Minor Canon Corner.
1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 328/2 Vatel himself..would not have hesitated to make a stock for his master Condé, or his king Louis the Magnificent, out of cod's-heads.
b. gen. The raw material from which anything is made; material. Chiefly with prefixed word as in paper stock n. at paper n. and adj. Compounds 2, soap-stock.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > [noun]
raw material1612
crudity1626
raw produce1832
stock1873
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > [noun]
paper stock1862
stock1873
furnish1920
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 350 In its natural state, fat..is always associated with..foreign matters, which must be separated before it can be used as candle stock.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Paper-stock Bleacher,..for expressing the bleaching material from paper-stock, without having recourse to the draining-vat... Paper-stock Washer, a machine for cleansing shredded rags preparatory to pulping.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 384/2 In these the stock is exposed to the strongest tanning liquors.
1924 S. Leicester Pract. Stud. for Paper Manufacturers v. 116 The mistakes in sizing are some of the most difficult to elucidate... The stock used may be the cause.
1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 45 Distinct variations occur between one batch of stock and another with regard to treatment, colour, temperature, consistency, retention of additives, etc.
c. Cinematographic film.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > film
stock1897
cinema film1912
1897 C. F. Jenkins Picture Ribbons 27 The film is of transparent celluloid, one side of which is coated with a sensitive emulsion, that for the negative being much more rapid than the positive stock.
1909 Moving Picture World 3 July 11/2 The non-inflammable film stock is now being issued by so many manufacturers.
1938 Times 15 Mar. 12/3 A twelve-minute film on 16 mm. stock, shown privately in Liverpool.
1938 Times 15 Mar. 12/3 The technical quality of the film is excellent, super-panchromatic stock giving rich quality to shots which are themselves carefully composed.
1974 C. Priest Your Bk. of Film-making i. 23 The film is twice as wide as 8 mm film stock.
58. Cards.† c. = hand n. 24. Obsolete.
a. In certain games, the portion of the pack of cards which is not dealt out, but left on the table to be drawn from according to the rules of the game. [Compare Dutch stok, Norwegian stokk, in the same sense.]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > portion of pack not dealt
stock1584
deck1594
talon1862
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xxvii. 332 Throw vpon the stocke the nether card.
1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. E This Queene I haue more then my owne you see, Giue me the stocke.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (1680) vi. 65 [Gleek] The Dealer delivers the Cards by four till every one hath twelve, and the rest are laid on the Table, for the Stock, being in number eight.
1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester vii. 69 [L'Ombre] There will remain thirteen Cards in the Stock.
1732 J. Swift Beast's Confession in Poems 193 He heard there was a club of cheats, Who..Could change the stock, or cog a dye.
1830 R. Hardie Hoyle 44 (Piquet) Talon, or stock, is the eight remaining cards, after twelve are dealt to each person.
1878 H. H. Gibbs Game of Ombre (ed. 2) 19 After dealing he places the remaining thirteen cards before him, and they are called the Stock.
b. The set of cards used in a particular game (whether a pack, or one or more incomplete packs).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > set used in a particular game
stock1584
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London ii. A iiij Nowe all the Cardes in the stock are delte about.
1895 G. J. Manson Sporting Dict. Stock, the number of packs of cards corresponding with the number of players, shuffled together and ready to be dealt.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > hand
game1554
handc1555
deal1607
trick1607
stock1637
holding1929
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1848) cxciv. 382 That Kirk and Commonwealth are in his hand, like a stock of cards, and that he dealeth the play to the mourners of Zion [etc.].
1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 28 So many Cards ith' stock, and yet be bilkt?
1659 H. Neville Shufling, Cutting, & Dealing 6 Shall I not play? My Lord Protector hath given me a Stock, and I'le pack the Cards with all the Cavalier-Gamesters in the Town.
VII. As a final element in compounds, after whipping-stock, etc.
59. In imitation of compounds like leaning-stock n. at leaning n. Compounds 2, whipping-stock n. at whipping n. Compounds 1b, where the noun has the sense A. 1b or A. 5, there have been formed many combinations of stock with a preceding verbal noun, which designate a person as the habitual object of some kind of contemptuous or unpleasant treatment. (There is probably in these formations some notion of sense A. 1c, the implication being that the person is treated as if incapable of feeling.) Examples, which appear in this Dictionary as main words or under their first element, are floating-, gauring, gazing-, jesting-, laughing-, mocking-, pointing-, sporting-, talking-, torturing-stock; the following quots. contain one or two nonce-words that have not been registered in their alphabetical place.
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cclxiv Not to dispute and make scripture, a railyng and tauntyng stocke, against Priestes and Preachers.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 114v Then shall you be like stars to the wise, who now are but staring stocks to the foolish.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. vi. 154 Therefore [she] might indifferently be made The courting-stock, for all to practise on.
B. adj. (usually in attributive use). That is kept in stock (see A. 56c).
1. Designating a medicinal or chemical preparation which is kept ready for use, or the vessel in which such a preparation is stored.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > officinal or pharmacopoeial
officinal1721
pharmacopoeial1837
stock1863
official1871
pharmacopoeian1890
1863 J. Hughes Pract. Photogr. (1866) 11 When you have done for the day, return what [collodion] remains back into the stock-bottle.
1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 390/1 These [chemicals] are mixed together in one large stock tank.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 424 If the specific gravity is to be lowered, this stock solution is diluted with water.
1907 J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (ed. 6) 49 It is better to keep both the stock gold and the stock platinum solutions in the dark.
2. figurative in reference to intellectual or literary topics: Kept in stock for use; commonly used or brought forward, constantly appearing or recurring, in conversation, discussion, or composition; belonging to a staple or stock-in-trade of subjects, arguments, phrases, quotations, etc.; hence, commonplace, trite, conventional. Also with reference to fictional characters of a standardized or conventional type (cf. stock character n. at Compounds 2b(b) above); also transferred.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > conventional
stock1738
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > commonplace > habitually used or stock
standing1600
standard1724
stock1738
stereotype1824
stereotyped1849
stereotypic1884
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical
vinnied1563
overworn1578
seta1616
stock1738
hackneyed1747
commonplace1801
stereotype1824
stereotyped1849
hacky1862
stereotypic1884
cliché1895
cliché-ridden1920
clichéd1925
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xl The old Stock-Oaths.
1804 M. Edgeworth To-morrow i, in Pop. Tales III. 248 A line which has become a stock line among writing-masters' copies.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 57 The master of the house, who was burning to tell one of his seven stock stories.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. ix. 196 The humble stock-phrases in which they talked of their labours of love.
1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism ii. 36 The stock arguments against utilitarianism.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 172 Heine's..utter rejection of stock classicism and stock romanticism.
1871 J. Morley Vauvenargues in Crit. Misc. 14 The stock moralist, like the commonplace orator of the pulpit, fails to touch the hearts of men.
1895 Bookman Oct. 26/2 The history has been sadly confused and distorted by stock quotations from the fathers.
1940 W. S. Maugham Books & You p. xii The characters..are not very interesting, and most of them are the stock figures of Victorian fiction.
1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 118/2 The ‘good girl’ is the nineteenth-century stock model which has long been merged with the mother image.
1960 Spectator 8 Jan. 47/3 The stock types who go through the moves in this upper exurbanite gavotte.
a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) vi. 200 Catering for stock-type ‘individuals’ (all humanity being divided into 12 groups).
1963 Listener 28 Feb. 376/2 It [sc. the magazine story] is composed of prefabricated clichés—stock characters, stock situations, stock dialogue, stock plots.
1980 J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. vii. 185 A man full of bounce, like the stock uncle known to all large families.
3. In non-attributive use.
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1966 Listener 25 Aug. 288/3 The authors gave us sharply observed characters—stock, but none the worse for it.
1977 Hot Car Oct. 88/2 The diesel stock with a servo.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 776/2 The stereotypes are used in a relatively straightforward way, as stock as the London brick.
Compounds
C1. Compounds of the noun.
a. Similatively (with reference to sense A. 1c).
(a)
(i) † stock-log n. Obsolete
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1689 E. Hickeringill Ceremony-monger iii. 32 [The Ceremony-Monger] is the great Stock-Logg of the Church, that has neither Fire nor heat within.
(ii)
stock-headed adj.
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1904 M. Hewlett Queen's Quair ii. vii. 279 That stock-headed starer out of painted eyes.
stock-like adj.
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1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxi Does he stand stock-like henceforth?
(b) Also stock-still adj. [Compare Dutch stokblind, German stockblind; German stocktaub stock-deaf; Dutch stokstijf, German stocksteif stiff as a poker; Dutch stokoud very old; German stockdunkel, -finster pitch-dark.]
stock-blind adj. as blind as a stock.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind
star-blindeOE
bissonc950
blind-bornc975
blindc1000
darkOE
purblinda1325
sightlessa1325
start blinda1387
stark blinda1425
stone-blindc1480
beetle-blind1556
beetle1566
eyeless?1570
purblinded1572
high-gravel-blind1600
not-seeing?1602
kind-blind1608
bat-blind1609
unseeing1609
blindful1621
winking-eyed1621
lamplessa1625
deocular1632
lightless1638
bat-eyed1656
stock-blind1675
duncha1692
gazelessa1819
visionlessa1821
blind-eyed1887
stone-eyed1890
unsighted1983
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 21 True Lovers are blind, stockblind.
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia I. i. 32 He was stock-blind; so could not judge of me by my exterior.
stock-dead adj. as dead as a stock.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 136 A corpulent, fat Man..fell down stock-dead, as soon as he came to the shrine.
stock-deaf adj. as deaf as a stock.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > disordered hearing > [adjective] > deaf
deafc825
hearingless1398
deathc1475
as deaf as a door, doorpost, doornail1546
dunch1569
surda1682
nut-deaf1828
stock-deaf1865
soundless1890
stone-eared1895
non-hearing1958
Mutt and Jeff1960
mutt1973
mutton1983
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iv. 71 Though he is ‘stock-deaf’, he has a bodily feeling of music, and different instruments have different effects upon him.
stock-full adj. [Compare Dutch stokblind, German stockblind; German stocktaub stock-deaf; Dutch stokstijf, German stocksteif stiff as a poker; Dutch stokoud very old; German stockdunkel, -finster pitch-dark.] rare chock-full, cramfull.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim
brerd-fullc1000
bret-fullc1200
staff-fulla1400
chock-fullc1440
brimful1530
brink-full1553
top-full1553
brim-charged1582
bankfullc1600
crowned1603
full-brimmed1614
brimmed1624
teemful1673
brimming1697
stock-full1782
throat-fulla1800
jam-full1835
cram-full1837
stodge-full1847
chockc1850
top-filled1860
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. v. xii. 157 I'm sure the garden is so stock full, that if there was to come many more, I don't know where they could cram 'em.
b. (In sense A. 4.)
(a) † stock-head n. Obsolete
stock-grower n.
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1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 562 As practised by the stock~growers in propagating plum and Paradise stocks.
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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlvv Take tough clay..& ley it vpon thy stocke heed.
(b) † stock-grafted adj. Obsolete grafted by means of a slit or cleft in the stock.† stock-grafting n. Obsolete cleft-grafting.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [adjective] > grafted
inoculated1604
ungraft1605
engraffed1607
engrafted1609
ungrafted1657
grafted1697
stock-grafted1707
inarched1736
workeda1763
root-grafted1835
bud-grafted1930
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 265 Medlars may be cleft, or Stock-grafted, on the White Thorn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > cleft-grafting
cleft-grafting1669
slit-grafting1706
stock-grafting1731
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. (at cited word) Grafting, Cleft Grafting, which is also call'd Stock or Slit-grafting.
c. (In sense A. 52.)
(a) † stock-office n. Obsolete
stock †-bill n.
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1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 129 [He] produced bank and stock bills to the amount of..five thousand pounds.
stock-board n.
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1871 T. L. Cuyler Heart-Life 169 The reckless gambling operations of stock-boards or ‘the street’.
stock collateral n. (see collateral n. 6).
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1929 Observer 17 Nov. 3/4 Time money on stock collateral is now quoted 5⅓ to 6 per cent.
stock-dealer n.
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1902 Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 10/1 A firm of stock-dealers.
stock-list n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stock-list, a list published daily or periodically, enumerating the leading stocks dealt in; the prices current; the actual transactions, etc.
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1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. 171 (South Sea office) Chief Clerk of the Stock-office.
stock-watering n.
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1883 Nation (N.Y.) 11 Oct. 307/2 ‘Stock-watering’ means simply an increase in the number of shares into which the property of a corporation is divided.
(b) Also stockbroker n., etc.
stock certificate n. a document issued by the Treasury, entitling the holder to a certain amount of a particular government stock.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > certificates
trust certificate1720
scrip?1734
script1768
savings certificate1842
stock certificate1863
PINC1986
property income certificate1986
1863 Act 26 & 27 Victoria c. 28 §6 A Stock Certificate..shall entitle the Bearer to the Stock therein described.
stock-indicator n. = stock-ticker n.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > recording of prices or dealings > instrument recording variations
ticker1883
stock-ticker1886
stock-indicator1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Stock-indicator.
stock-ticker n. a telegraphic instrument for recording variations in the price of stock.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > prices of stocks and shares > recording of prices or dealings > instrument recording variations
ticker1883
stock-ticker1886
stock-indicator1891
1886 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 17 July 2/3 The Stock Ticker.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 10/2 A narrow strip of paper resembling a stock-ticker tape.
stock receipt n. (see quot. 1901).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > receipt > types of
bill of lading1599
note1601
bill of loading1626
tally1626
bank receipt1699
subscription receipt1720
treasury certificate1791
warrant1825
tally of sol1843
stock receipt1901
1901 W. G. Cordingley Dict. Stock Exchange Terms 86 Stock Receipt. This is a Receipt, in printed form, filled in by the seller of Consols and other Registered Stocks and given by him to the buyer at the time the transfer is made.
stock split n. U.S. the division of a stock into an increased number of shares.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements
intromission1567
hedginga1631
retiring1681
partnership1704
put1718
time bargain1720
bargain for time1721
option1746
call1825
put and call1826
cornering1841
corner1853
raid1866
pooling1871
squeeze1872
call option1874
recapitalization1874
short squeeze1877
split-up1878
margin call1888
pyramid1888
profit taking1891
pyramiding1895
underwriting1895
melon-cutting1900
round turn1901
market-making1902
put-through1902
put and take1921
round trip1922
put and take1929
leverage1931
split-down1932
switching1932
give-up1934
mark to market1938
recap1940
rollover1947
downtick1954
stock split1955
traded option1955
leg1959
stock splitting1959
rollover1961
split1972
spread betting1972
unitization1974
marking-to-market1981
swap1982
telebroking1984
1955 Times 6 July 9/3 According to the Associated Press, the directors of General Motors Corporation have to-day recommended a three-for-one stock split to be voted on by stockholders at a special meeting on September 23.
1967 N.Y. Times (Internat. ed.) 11 Feb. 9/6 Your first bonus report will be our list of 30 stock split candidates.
1977 Dædalus Fall 85 Tests indicate that stock prices quickly adjust to changes in public information (announcements of stock splits, dividend increases, etc.).
stock splitting n. cf. split-up n. at split- comb. form .
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements
intromission1567
hedginga1631
retiring1681
partnership1704
put1718
time bargain1720
bargain for time1721
option1746
call1825
put and call1826
cornering1841
corner1853
raid1866
pooling1871
squeeze1872
call option1874
recapitalization1874
short squeeze1877
split-up1878
margin call1888
pyramid1888
profit taking1891
pyramiding1895
underwriting1895
melon-cutting1900
round turn1901
market-making1902
put-through1902
put and take1921
round trip1922
put and take1929
leverage1931
split-down1932
switching1932
give-up1934
mark to market1938
recap1940
rollover1947
downtick1954
stock split1955
traded option1955
leg1959
stock splitting1959
rollover1961
split1972
spread betting1972
unitization1974
marking-to-market1981
swap1982
telebroking1984
1959 Economist 28 Feb. 788/1 Stock splitting (the American equivalent of the British scrip or bonus issue).
d.
(a) (In sense A. 54.)
(i)
(1) † stock-husbandry n. Obsolete
stock-agent n.
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1933 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 9 Sept. 15/7 Dealers and stock-agents use various terms..to make failing mouthed sheep sound younger.
1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 11/3 Barney, the stock agent, was looking him straight in the eye when he said: ‘If I were you, Clarence, I'd sell the lot and run some sheep.’
stock-auction n.
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1948 W. Faulkner Intruder in Dust (1949) vi. 134 Monday was stock-auction day at the sales barns behind the Square.
stock-breeder n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer
breeder1531
stock-farmer1769
Boer1776
stock-breeder1815
stockholder1819
veeboer1824
ranchero1825
rancher1836
ranchman1854
stockman1856
pastoral1876
stock-keeper1912
1815 Sporting Mag. 45 194 Mr. George Flower..Merino stock-breeder.
stock-breeding n.
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1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory viii. 114 This yields..the sequence of (a) hunting-gathering; hoe-culture; (c) hoe-culture with stock-breeding; (d) ‘agriculture’.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Nov. 678/3 Professor Nichols makes a comprehensive review of the genetic basis of modern stockbreeding.
stock-carrying n.
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1866 J. Murray Descr. Province Southland 9 The stock-carrying capacity of the natural herbage is of course variable.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 78/1 He brought back the idea of loose-housing..and introduced it at Langhill to cater for the additional stock-carrying capacity of the next-door, buildingless farm then being acquired.
stock-dealer n.
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1885 Manch. Examiner 17 Mar. 5/2 Duties on live meat in Germany fail in protecting stockdealers.
stock-driver n.
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1851 Lyttelton (N.Z.) Times 19 Apr. A settlement of whale-fishers and stock-drivers.
1871 Republican Rev. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 27 May 1/3 M. Maloney..arrived here on Thursday, being sent ahead to employ stock drivers.
stock-driving n.
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1867 H. Phillips Jrnl. 29 Sept. 88 (typescript) T.A.P. & I.I. stock driving.
1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 92 [The farm] is allowed to lay awaste, whilst its owner has turned to stock-driving.
stock-farm n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farm
stock-farm1806
1806 Sydney Gaz. 31 Aug. 4/2 Well adapted either as an Arable or Stock Farm.
1848 Senate Rep. 30th U.S. Congr. 1 Sess. No. 75. 29 Some five hundred head of beef cattle were taken from the government stock farm.
1912 M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. 27 I own a stock farm near Lexington.
stock-farmer n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer
breeder1531
stock-farmer1769
Boer1776
stock-breeder1815
stockholder1819
veeboer1824
ranchero1825
rancher1836
ranchman1854
stockman1856
pastoral1876
stock-keeper1912
1769 Ann. Reg. 1768 149 The stock farmers have greatly suffered, as the lambs were much hurt.
1894 Harper's Mag. Apr. 676/2 ‘Crit’ Marston, the young blue-grass stock-farmer, is a favorite throughout all that section.
stock-farming n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun]
cattle-farming1806
stock-keeping1844
cattle ranching1866
stock-farming1866
cattle-rearing1871
boviculture1876
cattle-breeding1877
ranching1882
pecudiculture1885
cow-work1886
1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. v. 120 In stock-farming the chief thing is not to have too many beasts.
stock-feed n.
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1915 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 83 The Ana (or Aana) tree..is said to give the best stock-feed in the whole world.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 113/1 I am growing ten acres each of stockfeed peas and beans.
1970 Oxf. Times 30 Oct. 14 Demand for stockfeed potatoes would be far greater than usual.
stock-feeding n.
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1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 37 Crops used for stock-feeding.
stock-food n.
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1894 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 5 646 A proportion of the produce grown is retained on the farm, as stock-food or litter.
stock-grower n.
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1876 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 Dec. 845/1 The experience of stock-growers from all sections for the last few years has proved [etc.].
stock-house n.
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1808 Sydney Gaz. in O'Hara Hist. New S. Wales (1817) 317 To be sold..with a good dwelling-house, barn, stable, stock-houses, and a capital stock-yard.
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1801 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 285 The general run of the soil of this tract..renders it very eligible for what is called the stock-husbandry.
stock-inspector n.
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1888 Cent. Mag. Feb. 507/1 At every shipping point..stock inspectors..jealously examine all the brands on the live animals or on the hides of the slaughtered ones.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. iii. 47 He then became Stock Inspector in the North Island, but quarrelled with his superiors.
1948 V. Palmer Golconda ii. 15 He might have been a country teacher or a stock-inspector.
stock-master n.
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1864 Intellectual Observer Jan. 390 Veterinarians, sheep-breeders, stock~masters, and others practically acquainted with the diseases of our domesticated animals.
stock-minder n.
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 451 Stock-minder, one who takes care of cattle on the great prairies.
stock-owner n.
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1865 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 6/4 The Belgian Government has conferred a great boon..on its stock~owners [by checking a cattle plague].
stock-raiser n.
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1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 314 A part..of the large grant..on which numerous ranch-men and stock-raisers are said to have settled.
stock-raising n.
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1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 148 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Study of plants, meadows, and stock-raising.
1876 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 Dec. 845/1 Eventually the stock-raising interests will be driven to the northern buffalo grass region.
stock-ranch n.
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1871 in S. De Vere Americanisms (1872) 129 An estancia or stock~ranch.
stock-range n.
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 451 Stock-range, the prairie or plain where cattle range or graze.
1882 Cent. Mag. Aug. 511/1 The hill country is all open as a stock~range.
stock-rearing n.
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1915 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 47/2 A son of his anticipated this kind of stock-rearing many years ago in Manitoba.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 29 Mar. 12/3 An 81-acre Northants stock-rearing and feeding farm has been sold for £9,800.
stock-run n.
ΚΠ
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxvi. 155 You oblige the settler to improve the grant..instead of keeping it as a mere stock-run.
stock-sale n.
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1948 W. Faulkner Intruder in Dust (1949) vi. 134 Stock-sale day unlike Sunday was a man's time.
stock-station n.
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1843 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Austral. Colonies xxiii. 264 Accompanied by the Agricultural Superintendent, we walked to a stock-station..where three men are placed in charge of some cattle.
1847 A. Harris Settlers & Convicts xiii. 252 It was..not till noon..that we succeeded in finding the nearest stock-station.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stock-station, a district for rearing and herding cattle.
stock-theft n.
ΚΠ
1904 Transvaal Agric. Jrnl. July 573 Stock theft has always been a great source of worry and trouble to the farming community of this country.
1955 L. G. Green Karoo xvii. 199 Crime in the karoo usually means stock-theft.
stock-thief n.
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1955 L. G. Green Karoo ix. 112 The hunt for a stock-thief who fled into the poort.
1958 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Sept. 14/9 A quiet-spoken, slightly-built man has become the terror of stock-thieves in the Evaton and Losberg areas.
stock-trader n.
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1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 248 A back-street stock-trader's boarding house.
1948 W. Faulkner Intruder in Dust (1949) vi. 134 The men with their stock-trader walking-sticks not even stopping.
stock-train n.
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 451 Stock-train, a train of railroad cars loaded with cattle.
?1906 in J. V. Allen Cowboy Lore (1971) i. 19 Another train run in to my stock train.
1961 R. P. Hobson Rancher takes Wife xiv. 171 By the time the stock train pulled in..we had a count on the herd.
stock-yard n.
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1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales x. 373 A young ox was missed from the stock~yard at Toongabbe.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxvi. 300 The first result we see of a gentleman farming being the increase of the size of his stock-yard.
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 xxi. 428 Expended... Union stock yards Chicago..§100,000.
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xv. 145 The wind..piled it uselessly, over every fence and stockyard.
1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo iv. 51 They wandered from the stock-yards to the shade-miah.
1958 L. Durrell Mountolive viii. 162 The mauve-veiled evening voices of Alexandrians uttering stockyard quotations.
1963 Times 16 Jan. 6/6 Born in the stockyards district (where he still lives) and where as a ‘stockyards cowboy’ he once herded cattle from pen to pen.
1978 D. Greig Daisy v. 54 In Chicago we stayed at the Hotel on Lake Michigan, near the famous Stockyards where, as they used to say, the unfortunate animals went in whole at one end and came out the other processed into fifty different products.
(2)
stock-proof adj.
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1915 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 20 Feb. 190 If the long shoots of this plant [sc. Eleagnus] are interlaced while the hedge is growing it makes a close and excellent stock-proof fence.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 123/2 The Monmouthshire style of hedging..gives a real stock-proof fence.
(ii) Also stock-car n., stockholder n., stock-keeper n. (etc.), stockman n.
stock and station n. Australian and New Zealand used attributively to designate firms or their employees dealing with farm products and supplies.
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the world > food and drink > farming > [adjective] > farming industries
stock and station1881
agroindustrial1906
1881 Adelaide Observer 22 Oct. 44/1 He was suspecious of all stock and station salesmen.
1908 in D. J. Gordon Handbk. S. Austral. 327 (advt.) Bagot, Shakes, & Lewis, Limited. Stock and station agents.
1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. ii. 13 Ford and Newton, who were the leading Christchurch Stock and Station Agents.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai vii. 113 Here were the big mortgage and stock-and-station houses where wool was finally baled and cleaned for export.
stock box n. a compartment of a beehive in which a ‘stock’ or swarm of bees is kept.
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1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 501/1 There are also two supers or honey boxes, the same diameter as the stock boxes.
1888 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping II. 50 Both of these hives may be extended, by the addition of stock-boxes and supers.
stock horse n. Australian a horse trained to carry a stock-rider.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for herding cattle
stock horse1846
cow-horse1853
cow-pony1874
cutting horse1881
cutting pony1887
1846 H. Weekes in Rutherford & Skinner New Plymouth Settlement (1940) i. vi. 124 ‘Peter’ was an excellent stock-horse, would follow cattle like a dog.
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons l An aged stockhorse, which I had bought very cheap.
stock-hut n. Australian the hut of a stockman.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] > herdsman's, shepherd's, etc.
shiel1291
tilt1612
shepherd's hut1663
chalet1784
shanty1824
stock-hut1827
kiln-hole1828
hok1930
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xx. 37 They..paid a visit to a stock hut inhabited by three freemen, at Putty.
stock-rider n. Australian a man employed to ride after cattle on an unfenced station.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > cowherd
cowherda1000
oxherd1281
geldherd1284
nowtherd1296
neatherd1301
drover1384
catcherc1400
caller?a1500
ox-boy1580
neatress1586
harrier1591
cowherdess1611
spurn-cow1614
neatherdess1648
cowgirl1753
herds-woman1818
oxman1820
ranchero1825
topsman1825
vaquero1826
herdsmaiden1829
overlander1841
cattle-herd1845
cowboy1849
buckaroo1852
stock-rider1862
pointer1869
night-herder1870
puncher1870
bull-puncher1872
outrider1872
cowpuncher1873
range man1875
cow-puncher1878
herd-boy1878
cow-girl1884
trail-herd1885
trail boss1890
nighthawk1903
point man1903
swing man1903
top hand1912
charro1926
waddy1927
cattle-puncher1928
cowpoke1928
paniolo1947
1862 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 31 Broke in by one of my stock-riders up to fifteen stone.
1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber ii. iii. 314 A stockrider..in..flash riding-boots.
1973 Parade (Melbourne) Sept. 30/2 The authorities were able to choose exactly the sort of men they wanted from the hundreds of adventurers, prospectors, settlers and stock-riders who offered their services.
stock-riding n. the occupation of a stock-rider.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > herding
herd-work1166
herding1733
stock-riding1872
herdsmanship1889
1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 108/1 The Grant brothers had been doing some very tidy bits of stock-riding too.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xviii The stock-riding contingent.
stock-route n. Australian a right of way for travelling cattle through occupied land.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > which one may lawfully use > for moving cattle
stock-route1886
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > stock-route
travelling stock reserve1868
stock-route1886
1886 P. Clarke ‘New Chum’ in Austral. (ed. 2) 197 I saw it on the stock-route to Bathurst.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxxiv. 286 An overgrown old orchard, skirting one of the great stock-routes.
1977 Meanjin 36 i. 69 Cattle cross on the stockroutes.
stock-whip n. Australian a whip for driving cattle; also as v. transitive, to beat with a stock-whip.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge
swingc725
scourc1386
whipc1386
lash1398
bescourgea1400
swaipa1400
flail14..
belash1458
stripec1460
leash1503
flagelle1551
swingea1556
breech1573
lace1599
flagellate1623
slash1631
chawbuck1682
innocentize1708
swepe1710
belace1736
screenge1787
yedder1818
stock-whip1852
rawhide1858
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > equipment
salec1299
salebandc1299
shacklec1460
marking stone1534
low bell1578
baikiea1598
nose-hook1778
sjambok1790
shangy1808
cow-bell1809
ox frame1844
bullwhip1848
humbug1850
stock-whip1852
bull-whacker1858
cattle-bell1872
bull-whack1885
leading-staff1886
bullock-bell1911
bull-holder1940
1852 Harper's Mag. Dec. 25/1 The Australian ‘stockman’ is a sort of Europeanized Tartar... His food is beef and ‘damper’... In his ‘run’ the stockman is king: his cattle are his subjects; his saddle is his throne; his sceptre is the stock-whip.
1853 J. Rochfort Adventures Surveyor iv. 42 If the natives had not lent her [sc. the mare] to me he would have gone over and stock-whipped them.
1857 W. Howitt Tallangetta l. 100 The stock-whip, with a handle about half a yard long and a thong of three yards long, of plaited bullock-hide, is a terrible instrument in the hands of a practised stockman.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career i. 4 Father came to my rescue, despatching the reptile with his stock-whip.
1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King vi. 53 Wrap me in my stock whip and blanket, And bury me deep.
1955 J. Cleary Justin Bayard viii. 111 He tried to hit me, and old Thaddeus stockwhipped him.
1958 R. Stow To Islands i. 17 What's the use of holding it against Mr. Heriot that he used to be a handy man with a stockwhip?
(b) Indicating an animal that is chosen or kept for breeding purposes, as stock carp, stock dog, stock mare, etc. Also stock-getter.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective] > kept for breeding
holding1547
store1602
stock1785
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus carpio (carp) > kept for breeding
stock carp1785
1785 J. Woodforde Diary 20 Oct. (1926) II. 211 Mr. Townshend..sent me 20 brace and ½ of stock Carp.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 222 The season throughout has been remarkably favourable to stock sheep.
1854 Poultry Chron. 2 404 The purchase of fowls intended for stock~birds should not now be delayed.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 15/2 A black tan terrier..which was the greatest stock dog in London of that day.
1862 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 31 A handsome little stock-mare.
1862 ‘The Druid’ Scott & Sebright 165 Till within the last three years he [a stallion] was a very sure stock-getter.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 74 It..is only advisable with some very special stock-ram, whose progeny are valuable.
1891 Cent. Dict. Stock-fish,..fish adapted or used for stocking rivers, ponds, lakes, etc.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 16/2 Another hundred good stock trout have been placed in the Henley waters.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 219/1 It is very difficult to get good stock-ducks of the pure Aylesbury strain.
e. In names of birds.
stock annet n. the common sheldrake, Tadorna cornuta.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Tadorna (sheldrake)
sheldrakec1325
bergander1544
skeeling-goose1578
scaledrake1600
burranet1602
sheld-fowl?1606
burrow-duck1678
vulpanser1706
shelduck1707
mountain duck1711
sly-goose1776
Brahminy duck1813
paradise duck1813
red goose1848
stock annet1852
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 22 Tadorna Vulpanser... Stockannet.
stock drake n. [compare Danish stok-, Norwegian stokk-, Swedish stock-and] the mallard or wild duck, Anas boscas.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas platyrhynchos (mallard)
mallardc1330
stock drake1772
stock duck1805
greenhead1838
1772 J. Forster in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 419 Mallard Drake... It is called Stock Drake at Hudson's Bay.
stock duck n. see stock drake n.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas platyrhynchos (mallard)
mallardc1330
stock drake1772
stock duck1805
greenhead1838
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 301 The Mallard,..our stockduck.
stock eagle n. (also stock-eekle, etc.) [hickwall n.] dialect the green woodpecker.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > picus viridis (green woodpecker)
rain-fowl1440
woodwall1490
speight1513
hickwall?1533
rainbird1544
woodspite1555
green-peak1598
yaffingale1609
pick-a-tree1615
witwall1668
storm cock1769
nicker-pecker1787
yaffle1792
awl-bird1802
popinjay1802
yaffler1802
dirt-bird1847
yuckle1847
stock eagle1884
nicker1886
1884 Upton-on-Severn Gloss. Stock~eekle, a woodpecker.
1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. IX. 463 With which name [sc. ‘Log-cocks’] may be compared that of ‘Stock-eagle’, i.e. ‘Stump-eagle’, given in the West of England to the Greater Spotted Woodpecker.
stock owl n. the eagle owl, Bubo ignavus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > family Strigidae > bubo bubo
horn-owl1601
horn-coot1650
duke1656
eagle owl1678
stock owla1688
Grand Duke1796
a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) ii. 16 Sometime the Stock-oul and Bittern have been seen in this Country.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 312 The Eagle Owl.., our katogle or stock-owl.
stock pigeon n. = stock-dove n.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba oenas (stock-dove)
wood-culvera1100
stock-dovec1340
wood-quest1543
wood pigeon1668
stock pigeon1783
stoggie1864
sand pigeon1884
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 604 Stock Pigeon, Columba ænas.
stock whaup n. the curlew, Numenius arquata.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Numenius (miscellaneous) > numenius arquata (curlew)
curlew1377
spowe1519
whaup1538
shot-whaip1639
stock whaupa1795
a1795 G. Low Fauna Orcadensis (1813) 80 The larger curlew, called here Stock-Whap.
f. Miscellaneous special combinations.† stock-bow n. Obsolete a crossbow.† stock-buckle n. Obsolete a buckle used to secure the stock or cravat.† stockis-dynt n. Scottish Obsolete = stingis-dint n. at sting n.1 Compounds 2.† stock-drawers n. Obsolete stockings.† stock-fowler n. Obsolete a kind of cannon or mortar (cf. stock-gun n. and fowler n.1 3).† stock-gold n. Theatre Obsolete ‘property’ gold.† stock-gun n. Obsolete (cf. stock-fowler n.).† stock-honey n. Obsolete (see quot.).† stock-hose n. Obsolete hose of stout material worn over thinner hose.† stock-house n. Obsolete a prison where offenders were set in the stocks.† stock-nail n. [compare Middle Dutch stoknagel] Obsolete a thick nail.† stock-punished adj. Obsolete punished by being set in the stocks.† stock-sleeve n. Obsolete (see quot.).† stock-starve v. Obsolete (transitive) to keep (a tradesman) short of stock.† stock-tree n. Scottish Obsolete ? a wooden saddle-tree.† stock-wheel n. Scottish Obsolete ? a wheel for a gun-carriage.
stock account n. Book-keeping (see A. 50b).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > other types of accounts
calends of exchangec1374
scorea1400
pipe1455
mensalc1475
profit and loss1553
stock1588
bank account1671
lump-account1699
revenue account1703
profit and loss account1721
sundry1736
drawing account1737
stock account?1768
private account1772
trading account1780
Flemish account1785
capital account1813
embankment1813
cost account1817
cash-credit1832
current account1846
savings account1850
deposit account1851
suspense account1869
control account1908
checking account1923
ghost account1933
numbered account1963
budget account1969
ISA1975
MSA1993
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 589/2 Stock-accompt..contains, upon the Dr side, the debts due by the merchant when the books were begun. The Cr side contains his ready money, effects and debts due to him at the same time.
stock beer n. beer that is stored for ripening before being drunk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer
spruce beerc1500
March beer1535
Lubecks beer1608
zythum1608
household beer1616
bottle1622
mumc1623
old beer1626
six1631
four1633
maize beer1663
mum beer1667
vinegar beer1677
wrest-beer1689
nog1693
October1705
October beer1707
ship-beer1707
butt beer1730
starting beer1735
butt1743
peterman1767
seamen's beer1795
chang1800
treacle beer1806
stock beer1826
Iceland beer1828
East India pale ale1835
India pale ale1837
faro1847
she-oak1848
Bass1849
bitter beer1850
bock1856
treble X1856
Burton1861
nettle beer1864
honey beer1867
pivo1873
Lambic1889
steam beer1898
barley-beer1901
gueuze1926
Kriek1936
best1938
rough1946
keg1949
IPA1953
busaa1967
mbege1972
microbrew1985
microbeer1986
yeast-beer-
1826 D. Booth Art of Brewing (ed. 2) 64 Keep some stock beer for flavouring your best ale.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 404/2 The beer is by this means also rendered flat, which is necessary for stock or store beer that is to be kept some time before coming into use.
stock-board n. (a) the wooden board which forms the bottom of a brick-mould; (b) in an organ, the upper board of a soundboard, above the sliders, on which the pipes immediately rest; (c) see Compounds 1c.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > brick-making equipment > [noun] > mould > bottom of
stock1683
stock-board1850
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > soundboard > parts of
stock-board1850
table1852
groove-board1880
1850 E. Dobson Rudimentary Treat. Manuf. Bricks & Tiles i. i. 33 The brick mould is placed on a stock board, which is made to fit the bottom of the mould.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stock-board [in an organ].
stock book n. a book in which an account is kept of goods in stock; also spec. a book in which a record is kept of the animals which make up the stock of a farm.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock book
stock book1835
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book
book of account1444
accounts book1461
counting-book15..
accounting booka1555
account book1590
count-book1607
codicila1704
viewbook1718
bill-book1774
stock book1835
account ledger1879
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book
journal1540
bankers' book1585
shop book?1594
waste-book1613
cash-book1622
counter-book1622
pay-book1622
copybook1660
audit-booka1680
bankbook1682
transfer-book1694
malt-book1710
pay list1757
petty cash book1827
passbook1833
stock book1835
guard book1839
tommy book1841
bought-book1849
in-clearing book1872
out-clearing book1882
out-book1884
trial-book1890
1835 J. F. Cooper Monikins i. ii. 32 Love was a sentiment much too pure and elevated for one whose imagination dwelt habitually on the beauties of the stock-books.
1847 A. Harris Settlers & Convicts xiii. 260 Outside the yard..is..set a table with the stock book, pens, and ink, and in that the cattle are registered.
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. viii. 202 We keep a stock-book, in which every beast is entered.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/1 The President..seats himself, pen in hand, at the [canteen] stock-book, while the subalterns run over the different articles.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow
arbalesta1100
arbalestrea1387
crossbow1432
pellock bow1537
latch1547
piece1590
stock-bow1598
steel bow1607
balister1679
arcubalist1774
oblest1780
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Balista,..a crosse-bow, a stock-bow or tillar.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Stock-bow, a cross-bow.]
stock-boy n. (a) Australian an Aboriginal person employed to look after cattle or other stock; (b) U.S. a boy employed by a business firm to look after stock.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [noun] > stock-farmer > worker
stockman1806
ranchero1825
ranchman1854
bush-hand1863
station hand1863
jackeroo1864
boundary-rider1865
bush-rider1883
ringer1909
bush-worker1936
stock-boy1937
jillaroo1945
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > boy employed to look after stock
stock-boy1937
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle > tender of cattle
cowman1593
cowboy1623
cow-man1677
cowgirl1753
stockman1806
cowboy1825
cowboy1849
fogger1858
cow-woman1870
cattleman1878
cow-girl1884
tackman1885
cow-hand1886
peeler1894
rawhider1908
stock-boy1937
1937 E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness xli. 305 In Kimberley and the Territory lubras are even to-day recognised as the best ‘stock-boys’.
1955 J. Cleary Justin Bayard iv. 58 The stockboys had roped the piebald now and thrown a saddle on him.
1972 R. Milner in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 376 This receptionist thought I had come about a stock-boy job, you dig.
1979 D. Anthony Long Hard Cure x. 86 He owns a chain of department stores..one of those self-made men, who went to work at fourteen as a stockboy.
stock-brick n. [compare sense A. 15] a hard solid brick, pressed in the mould.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > types of
white brick1468
red brick1587
clinker1659
clinkerc1660
stock-brick1683
Windsor brick1702
grey stock1726
stockc1738
red stock1748
firebrick1749
Welsh lump1798
malm1811
cutting-brick1815
pecking1819
blue brick1823
malm brick1824
Windsor1841
cutter1842
grizzle1843
shuff1843
picking1850
Woolpit brick1887
Hollander1897
Staffordshire1898
Stafford brick1908
misfire1923
klompie1926
1683 J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husb. II. vi. 186 We make two sorts of Bricks, Viz. Stock-Bricks and Place-Bricks; the Stock-Bricks are made solid, strong, and..hard.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 42 Stock-bricks..are made upon a Stock, viz. The Mold is put on a Stock, after the manner of Molding, or Striking of Tiles.
1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 3 The whole of the bricks for the face of any work..of the arches are to be stock bricks.
stock-brush n. a brush with the bristles set in a flat stock or head.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > brush or broom
besomc1000
bast broom1357
brush1377
broom14..
sweepc1475
duster1575
bristle brush1601
broom-besom1693
flag-broom1697
stock-brush1700
whisk1745
birch-broom1747
hair-broom1753
spry1796
corn-broomc1810
pope's head1824
whisker1825
sweeping-brusha1828
swish1844
spoke-brush1851
whisk broom1857
Turk's head1859
wisp1875
tube-brush1877
bass-broom?1881
crumb-brush1884
dusting-brush1907
palmetto brush1913
suede brush1915
swale1949
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 13 Brishes, of three sorts, viz. A Stock Brish, a Round Brish, and a Pencil. With these Brishes, they wet old Walls before they mend them.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 403/2 Brushes with the tufts placed side by side on flat boards, as plasterers' brushes, are called stock-brushes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neckerchief > that which secures
stock-buckle1748
stiffener1818
woggle1923
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xliv. 79 A diamond stock-buckle.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 282 A well-brushed black suit, with very clean shoes and gold buckles and stock buckle.
stock-building n. = stockpiling n.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > holding material in stock
stockpiling1943
stockholding1961
stock-building1967
1967 A. Battersby Network Anal. (ed. 2) xiii. 221 They will be high during the first few months because of retail stock-building.
1977 Financial Results of Oil Majors 1976 (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 8 The increase in demand, combined with some stock-building at the end of the year in anticipation of a significant rise in oil prices, raised oil production outside the USSR, Eastern Europe and China to 47 million barrels daily in 1976.
stock-company n. (a) ? a joint-stock company; (b) a company the capital of which is represented by stock.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > joint stock
contributionship1701
joint-stock company1784
stock-company1827
industrial1843
S.A.1921
society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > other types of company
incorporation1530
acquisitor1668
private company?1711
private practice1724
public company1730
trading house1760
acquiror1789
in-company1791
public corporation1796
company1800
subsidiary company1823
proprietary company1824
stock-company1827
trust company1827
subsidiary1828
concessionaire1839
commandite1844
statutory company1847
parent company1854
mastership1868
state enterprise1886
Pty.1904
asset class1931
acquirer1950
parent1953
growth company1959
spin-off1959
non-profit1961
shell1964
not-for-profit1969
vehicle1971
spin-out1972
startup1975
greenfield1982
large-cap1982
monoline1984
small cap1984
mid-cap1988
multidomestic1989
dotcom1996
1827 W. Scott Surgeon's Daughter in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. II. i. 28 Half-ashamed,..yet half-proud of the literary stock-company, in which he has got a share.
1905 Outlook 7 Oct. 471/1 Within the last two years there have been three exposures of gigantic stock-company frauds [in America].
stock control n. (see quot. 1943).
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > control of quantity or quality of materials
stock control1943
1943 Princ. Production Control (B.S.I.) 7 Stock control, the means by which the correct quantity and quality of material and components are made available according to the production plan, and excessive stocks avoided.
1962 A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control v. 48 The calculations can conveniently be summarized on the Stock Control Form..and a specimen set of figures is shown.
1976 J. Lund Ultimate iii. 29 They talked..on the economics of warehousing and stock control.
stock cube n. a cube of concentrated, dehydrated meat stock sold for use in making soups, stews, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > stock or liquor > stock cube
Oxo1899
bouillon cube1934
stock cube1965
1965 Listener 26 Aug. 317/2 Add enough water to almost cover the meat, and the stock cubes.
1979 Times 29 Sept. 15/5 Do you keep a stockpot..and boil it daily?.. Cookery books..have a sneaky way of implying that stock cubes will never do.
stock culture n. an uncontaminated culture of a micro-organism maintained continuously and available as a source of experimental material.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > culture or medium
culture1880
blood culture1881
cultivation1881
culture medium1883
pure culture1883
agar1885
broth1885
subculture1885
tube-culture1886
bouillon1887
stab-culture1889
streak culture1892
blood agar1893
microculture1893
shake culture1894
streak plate1895
broth culture1897
slant1899
plating1900
stock culture1903
touch preparation1908
tissue culture1912
plaque1924
slope1925
agar-agar1929
isolate1931
MacConkey1938
auxanogram1949
lawn1951
monolayer1952
replica plate1952
1903 Jrnl. Hygiene 3 2 Gelatin plates were then made from the broth culture; if only a single species developed, agar tube-cultures were prepared and used as the stock-cultures of the organism.
1979 Jrnl. Appl. Bacteriol. 47 381 The maintenance of stock cultures of lactic acid bacteria in small microbiological laboratories may present a technical problem.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > for fighting or assault > with a stick
stingis-dint1153
stockis-dynt14..
14.. Burgh Lawis xvii, in Anc. Laws Scotl. (Burgh Rec. Soc.) 10 It is to wyt at in burgh sall nocht be herde bludewyt na yit stockisdynt na merchet [etc.].
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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 > stockings
stock-drawers1676
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Stock-drawers, stockings.
stock-father n. the progenitor of a stock or race.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > first ancestor or patriarch
chief fatherc1400
father?a1425
primitive1486
stock-father1600
stem1604
primogenitor1643
patriarch1758
stem-father1879
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. v. xxiv. 196 Romulus..the first Stockefather and beginner of the cittie of Rome.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 207 Hee is the stock-father of that honored family of the Berkeleys of Wymondham.
1895 W. P. W. Phillimore in New Eng. Gen. Hist Register Oct. 450 Edward Garfield, of Watertown, Mass., the stock~father of the American family.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > other pieces of ordnance
bombardc1430
ribaudequin1443
stock-gun1465
seven sistersa1529
chamber1540
bastard1545
chamber piece1547
volger1548
dogc1550
battardc1565
long shot1595
quarter piece1625
pelican1639
monkey1650
spirol1653
stock-fowler1669
saltamartino1684
smeriglio1688
botcarda1700
carriage gun1723
Lancaster1857
Armstrong1860
wire gun1860
Columbiad1861
Parrott1861
wedge-gun1876
truck-gun1883
motor cannon1889
Black Maria1914
Jack Johnson1914
supergun1915
flak1938
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 19 See that our Murtherers and Stockfowlers have their Chambers fill'd with good Powder.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 138/1 They are of some called Murthers and slings, or sling peeces, because they are slung in their holds to turne any way. Some call them Stock~fowlers; and Fowlers or Foulers.
stock-frost n. local ground-ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > at bottom of lake, river, etc.
ground-ice1694
anchor ice1815
bottom ice1816
stock-frost1856
stock-ice1879
frazil1888
1856 Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 1 151/2 Stock-frost... The watermen of Norfolk unanimously believe in the possibility of the water freezing at the bottom of a river.
1908 Nature 30 Jan. 295/2 What is locally called ‘stock frost’..is known to the scientific world..as ‘ground ice’.
stock-gang n. a ‘gang’ or set of mill-saws arranged to cut a log into boards at one passage through the machine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > gang-saw
gang-saw1804
stock-gang1875
Yankee gang1875
timber-frame1877
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stock-gang.
1880 Lumberman's Gaz. Jan. 28 They [i.e. the rafts] are then cut into boards by ‘stock gang’ saws.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > props > types of
stock-gold1713
profile stage property1854
slapstick1896
custard pie1915
practical1952
tickling stick1969
1713 R. Steele in Guardian 30 June 1/1 Fourscore Pieces of Stock-Gold, and thirty Pieces of Tin-Silver.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > other pieces of ordnance
bombardc1430
ribaudequin1443
stock-gun1465
seven sistersa1529
chamber1540
bastard1545
chamber piece1547
volger1548
dogc1550
battardc1565
long shot1595
quarter piece1625
pelican1639
monkey1650
spirol1653
stock-fowler1669
saltamartino1684
smeriglio1688
botcarda1700
carriage gun1723
Lancaster1857
Armstrong1860
wire gun1860
Columbiad1861
Parrott1861
wedge-gun1876
truck-gun1883
motor cannon1889
Black Maria1914
Jack Johnson1914
supergun1915
flak1938
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 326 Item, a stokk gonne wyth iij chambers.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > other types of honey
clarified honeya1450
flower-honey1577
corn-honey1609
stone-honey1609
hive-honey1653
grass-honey1658
lily-honey1658
stock-honey1742
heather-honey1826
clover honey-
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Aug. xxxiii. 106 Those Bees that swarmed, the year before, we take up now, and then it is called Stock-honey.
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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 > types of > reaching to the knee > types of
grenado-netherstock1598
stock-hose1638
buskin1687
straight hosiery1892
pop sock1958
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 155 They afterwards begun to use hose, drawing over them some thicker kind of stock-hose.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > where offenders are set in stocks
stock-house1553
1553 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 215 They..had him..to Bocardo, and did sette him in the stocke howse.
1725 London Gaz. No. 6403/4 Prisoner in the Stockhouse or Goal of Kingstone.
stock-ice n. local = stock-frost n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > at bottom of lake, river, etc.
ground-ice1694
anchor ice1815
bottom ice1816
stock-frost1856
stock-ice1879
frazil1888
1879 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip XV. 142/2 What are the phenomena which go, in the Norfolk district at least, by the name..of ‘stock-frost’, ‘stock-ice?’
stock knife n. (a) a knife for cutting wood, esp. one used by a clogger for shaping the soles of clogs; (b) a cutting instrument pivoted on a block (cf. stock-shave n.); (c) a stockman's knife.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > other knives
bollock knifec1400
paring knife1415
spudc1440
pricking-knifec1500
shaving-knife1530–1
by-knifec1570
heading knife1574
stock knife1582
drawing knife1583
bung-knife1592
weeding knife1598
drawing knife1610
heading knife1615
draw knife1679
dressing knife1683
redishing knife1688
mocotaugan1716
skinning knife1767
paper knife1789
draw shave1824
leaf-cutter1828
piece-knife1833
nut-pick1851
relic knife1854
butch1859
straw-knife1862
sportsman's companion1863
ulu1864
skinner1872
hacker1875
over-shave1875
stripping-knife1875
Stanley knife1878
flat-back1888
gauge-knife1888
tine-knife1888
plough1899
band-knife1926
X-Acto1943
shank1953
box cutter1955
ratchet knife1966
ratchet1975
society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > others
ripper1659
Mohock1721
pinking iron1761
stock knife1799
sapper1822
ice plough1830
race knife1832
dresser1860
race-tool1867
pen-maker1875
stone-cutter1875
twinning-machine1875
nail cutter1876
paper cutter1880
guillotine1883
miller1890
flaker1891
undercutter1891
race1904
lino-cutter1907
gang mower1917
go-devil1918
rotary cutter1936
stripping-bill1968
fragmentizer1972
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > stockman's knife
stock knife1955
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Cviij Kniues called stock kniues course vngilt the dosen xvi.s. viii.d.
1799 J. Wood Princ. Mech. (ed. 2) iv. 93 Those [levers] in which the forces act on contrary sides of the center of motion,..and those in which they act on the same side, as the stock knife.
1955 R. P. Hobson Nothing too Good for Cowboy i. 16 He cut the moosehide wrapping with his stock knife.
1968 J. Arnold Shell Bk. Country Crafts 105 The shaping of clogs from these clefts is done with a stock knife... It consists of a stout blade with a long projecting handle.
1978 Lancashire Life Apr. 49/2 The tools a sole-cutter used were three in number—stock-knife, hollower and gripper.
stock-maker n. a maker †(a) of gun-carriages; (b) of musket-stocks; (c) see quot. 1858.
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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
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making other items of clothing > one who makes other items of clothing
wimpler1260
paltock-maker1376
wimplester1379
point-maker1405
girdler1428
silk-maid1474
pointer1500
middlemana1525
jack-maker1541
paste-wife1550
silkman1553
body-maker1573
linen-armourer1603
bodice-maker1672
costumier1798
costumer1830
costumist1842
rober1852
stock-maker1858
tie-maker1901
1579 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. III. 205 Wrichtis, Stokmakaris and Quheill makaris.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. vi. 328 Deft Stock-makers do gouge and rasp.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stock-maker, a manufacturer of stiff neck-bands worn by men.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > thick
stock-nail1596
slug1892
1596 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shutlewortths (1856) I. 107 Stone nales, stocke nailes, clagge nales.
stock-nut n. the hazel-nut.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > hazel-nut
hazelnuteOE
Avellana1398
filberta1400
bannuta1500
cob-nut1574
cob1589
hazel1601
Pontic nut1601
stock-nut1833
Barcelona nut1851
noisette1970
1833 R. Walker Flora Oxfordshire 284 Corylus Avellana. Common Hazel-nut or Stock-nut.
stock-pot n. a pot in which stock for soups is boiled and kept; also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot for specific food
beef-potc1500
porridge pot1578
loblolly-pot1637
stock-pot1845
tatie pot1871
couscoussier1953
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery i. 3 Never..set the soup by in it, but strain it off..and fill the stock-pot immediately with water.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 260 The Chief of the cooks, the Archimagirus,..embraces at a single glance the series of stock-pots and brick stoves.
1891 A. Ainger in E. Sichel Life & Lett. A. Ainger (1906) 253 The schoolboy verses..will at once go into the Lamb ‘Stock~pot’—my Commonplace Book.
1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 964/1 Extra heavy bellied Stockpot, enamelled Pearl Grey outside and in.
1928 ‘O. Douglas’ Eliza for Common x. 128 Some quite dull books read like that—as if the author had simply thrown everything in, a sort of stock-pot of a book.
1931 R. Campbell Georgiad i. 18 His melancholy recipes for ‘happiness’..How to ‘rechauffe’ the stock-pot of desire.
1960 E. David French Provinc. Cooking 158 The pot..is usually a tall straight-sided or slightly bulbous stock-pot made of earthenware, copper, enamelled iron, or heavy aluminium.
1982 Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 15/5 Put..chine bone into stockpot, cover with water,..and simmer.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [adjective] > set in stocks or pillory
stockedc1425
stock-punished1608
pillorized1656
pilloried1671
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 122 Who is whipt from tithing to tithing, and stock-punisht and imprisoned. View more context for this quotation
stock-purse n. a fund kept for the common purposes of a group of persons.
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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] > set apart for a purpose > for or subscribed by several parties
the common pursea1400
common1540
purse1602
stock-pursea1665
subscription1730
slush fund1839
kitty1887
tarpaulin muster1889
tronc1928
International Monetary Fund1944
a1665 W. Guthrie Serm. Sympathie in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1847) II. 75 We have all one common profession, interest, stockpurse.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Stock Purse, a certain saving which is made in a corps, and which is applied to regimental purposes.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 67 A small stock~purse is maintained, for the support of the enfeebled and superannuated.
stock rail n. Railways each of the outer fixed rails at a set of points.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > rails at points > outer fixed rails
stock rail1850
1850 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 13 270/1 The top of the switch not being mitred into the underside of the bearing surface of the stock rail, it is not liable to be locked by the barbing over of the stock from the pressure of the wheels.
1890 W. H. Cole Notes Permanent-way Material i. 20 The points or switches are..so adjusted to their respective stock-rails that when one switch is pressed against its stock-rail the other is drawn away, and thus one line of metals or the other is made continuous.
1935 E. Beal Railway Modelling in Miniature ii. 36 Then solder the stock-rail for the other track.
stock-room n. (a) a room in which reserve stock is stored; (b) a room in a hotel in which commercial travellers display their samples.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > store-room
store-chamber1624
store-room1746
stock-room1825
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > showroom > for commercial travellers
stock-room1825
1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia 243 Another large and convenient room, denominated the Stock-room, in which the trading business of the [Stationers'] Company is transacted.
1877 ‘The Road’: Leaves Sketch-bk. Commerc. Trav. 53 The Commercial-Room is ample; there are dining, coffee, bath and stock rooms.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 133 Stock room, the department allotted to the storing of paper or printed stock.
stock-saddle n. †(a) Scottish ? a saddle with a wooden tree; (b) in the Western U.S., a saddle with a heavy tree and steel horn to give resistance in using a lariat.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > types of saddle
mail-saddle1360
trotter-saddle1381
panel1393
loadsaddle1397
packsaddle1398
limber-saddle1480
pillion1480
side-saddle1493
steel saddle1503
pilgate1511
mail pillowc1532
stock-saddle1537
pad1556
sunk1568
trunk-saddle1569
soda1586
mail pillion1586
running saddle1596
Scotch saddle1596
postilion saddle1621
pad-saddle1622
portmanteau-saddle1681
watering saddle1681
cart-saddle1692
demi-pique1695
crook-saddle1700
saddle pad1750
recado1825
aparejo1844
mountain saddle1849
somerset1851
pilch1863
cowboy saddle1880
sawbuck (pack)saddle1881
western saddle1883
cross-saddle1897
centre-fire1921
McClellan1940
poley1957
1537–8 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 380 For thre quarteris of fyne gray clath to cover ane stok sadill to the Kingis grace.
1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Apr. 863/2 For a long spell of such work a stock-saddle is far less tiring than the ordinary Eastern or English one.
stock-saw n. a saw used in a stock-gang.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > gang-saw > part of
stock-saw1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stock-saw.
stock-shave n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > shaving or paring
shavec825
shave-hook1432
paring-iron1491
spokeshave1510
shaving-knife1530–1
shaver1558
parer1573
stock-shave1794
inshave1875
over-shave1875
travisher1929
scratch stock1934
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 152 Stock-shave, a large sharp~edged cutting knife, with a handle at one end and a hook at the other, by which it hooks in a..staple..driven in an elm block; it is used to pare off the rough wood from the shells of blocks, &c.
stock-shears n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] > types of
plate shears1599
stock-shears1688
right1846
snips1846
cropping shears1873
crocodile shears1884
kitchen scissors1907
tinsnips1944
tinmen's snips1950
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 386/2 Two other working Tools of the Needle-makers. The first is their Stock-Shears, with these they cut the Wyer to that length as the Needle is to bear.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > types of
poke1402
foresleeve1538
long sleeve1538
lumbard1542
puller out1543
maunch1550
hand sleeve1585
French sleeve1592
poke sleeve1592
puff1601
trunk sleeve1603
stock-sleeve1611
hoop-sleeve1614
puff sleevec1632
short sleeve1639
hanging sleeve1659
engageants1690
jockey-sleeve1692
pudding-sleeve1704
Amadis1814
gigot1824
leg of mutton1824
bishop sleeve1829
mutton-leg sleeve1830
balloon sleeve1837
gigot-sleeve1837
bag-sleeve1844
pagoda sleeve1850
mameluke sleeve1853
angel sleeve1859
elbow-sleeve1875
sling-sleeve1888
sleevelet1889
pagoda1890
bell-sleeve1892
kimono sleeve1919–20
dolman1934
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Lombard Manche Lombarde, a stocke-sleeue; or fashion of halfe-sleeue, whose vpper part is raised, and full of plaits, or gathers.
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1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vi. 81 Those adventures..stock-starve the tradesman, and impoverish him in his ordinary business.
stock-stone n. a flat stone fixed in a handle, used for scouring and stretching leather.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for stretching hides or leather
softening iron1839
stretcher1839
stock-stone1875
stretcher-bar1883
stretch-bench1897
stretching-board1976
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stock-stone.
stock-tackle n. Nautical a tackle used for raising the stock of an anchor perpendicular.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > for raising stock of anchor
stock-tackle1815
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Stock-Tackle.
stock-trail n. used attributively to designate a gun-carriage in which the trail at the end of the stock rests upon the ground when the gun is unlimbered for firing.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [adjective] > types of gun-carriage
stock-trail1860
overbank1879
1860 A. Mordecai Rep. Mil. Comm. Europe ii. 62 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (36th Congr., 1st Sess: Senate Executive Doc. 15) XV These were no doubt designed for firing with larger charges..than the stocktrail carriage admits of.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle
saddle-boweOE
arsonc1300
saddle skirt1361
saddle-tree1364
skirtc1400
saddle panel1465
stock-tree1470
stock1497
pommela1500
tree1535
pillion cloth1540
port1548
saddle stock1548
pilch1552
bolster1591
cantle1591
shank-pilliona1599
pillowc1600
pad1604
crutch1607
sivet1607
saddle crutcha1614
saddle eaves1663
saddle tore1681
burr1688
head1688
narve1688
saddle seat1688
sidebar1688
torea1694
quarter1735
bands of a saddle1753
witherband1764
withers1764
peak1775
pillion-stick1784
boot-housing1792
saddle flap1798
saddle lap1803
fork1833
flap1849
horn1849
skirting1852
hunting-horn1854
head-plate1855
saddle horn1856
cantle bar1859
leaping-horn1859
straining1871
stirrup-bar1875
straining-leather1875
spring tree1877
leaping-head1881
officer-tree1894
monkey1911
monkey-strap1915
thigh roll1963
straining-web-
1470 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 92 That..no saddiller..make any sadelles of trees that er calde stokke trees or Scottes trees.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > wheel or roller
stock-wheel1547
truck1611
after-truck1834
artillery wheel1834
1547 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 103 For tua botis..hir stoke quhelis and necessaris.
C2. Compounds of the adjective.
a.
(a) Kept regularly in stock for sale.
(i)
stock book n.
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a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxx2/1 For they begin already to engrosse it, And make it a stock-book.
1858 Cooper Ath. Cantabr. I. 249 The Sick Man's Salve was long a stockbook with the Stationers' company.
stock lot n.
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1898 W. J. Greenwood Commerc. Corr. (ed. 2) 31 We particularly wish to call your attention to the stock lots as per particulars noted at foot.
stock model n.
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1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 July 3/1 (advt.) The car was a stock model in every respect except for a 48-gallon gasoline tank and changes in the top, back seat and tire carrier.
(ii)
stock-type adj.
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1958 Spectator 1 Aug. 170/1 A stock-type Vauxhall Velox.
(b)
stock shot n. Cinematography = library shot n. at library n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > shot > [noun] > types of
long shot1858
glass shot1908
close-up1913
aerial shot1920
angle shot1922
medium shot1925
far-away1926
travelling shot1927
zoom1930
zoom shot1930
process shot1931
close-medium shot1933
medium close-up1933
reverse angle1933
reverse shot1934
three-shot1934
tilt shot1934
medium-close shot1937
reaction shot1937
tracking shot1940
pan shot1941
stock shot1941
Dutch angle1947
cheat shot1948
establishing shot1948
master-scene1948
trucking shot1948
two-shot1949
bridging shot1951
body shot1952
library shot1953
master shot1953
mid shot1953
MS1953
pullback1957
MCU1959
noddy1982
arc shot1989
pop shot1993
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 93 A shoe-string producer told him he had bought the stock shots from Hell's Angels.
1974 Radio Times 14 Mar. 11/4 Processed chases up and down stock-shot ski slopes.
stock size n. a size (of ready-made garments) regularly kept in stock; used attributively or predicatively to designate a person whom such a size fits.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > size in > one who fits stock size
stock size1897
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [adjective] > size > person who fits stock size
stock size1897
1897 Daily News 9 Jan. 6/3 The happy woman who possesses what we may call a stock-size figure.
1900 Daily News 28 July 6/7 Those who are fortunate enough to be a ‘stock’ size can save many shillings by buying these ready-made articles.
1952 M. Laski Village xix. 262 Margaret was lucky, she was stock-size, not like Wendy herself who had always had to have everything made for her.
1980 Country Life 3 July 78/2 Our model girl was stock size and everything was too big for her.
b.
(a) Theatre.
stock author n.
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1824 J. Decastro Mem. 154 T. Dibdin, esq., succeeded him..as the stock author of that theatre.
1864 J. G. Bertram Glimpses Real Life xxv. 240 Jones keeps a stock author, and does not rely on outsiders.
stock burlesque n.
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1916 Variety 27 Oct. 12/1 Stock burlesque at the Lyric is moderately successful.
stock comedy n.
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1812 Dramatic Censor 1811 27/1 Among all the stock comedies which the Theatres are in the habit of representing, this is, in our idea, one of the very best.
1830 G. Colman Random Rec. II. i. 6 Miss Lee's ‘Chapter of Accidents’, long and justly rated as a stock Comedy.
stock list n.
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1782 I. Reed Baker's Biogr. Dramatica II. 84/2 The Way to keep him..still stands on the stock-list of the theatre.
stock part n.
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1887 T. A. Trollope What I Remember II. xii. 209 I subsequently took Sir Anthony [in ‘The Rivals’] which remained my stock part for years.
stock star n.
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1856 A. C. Ritchie Mimic Life i. ii. 44 As the ‘stock star’ of a popular theatre, in Boston, she had shone several years in the dramatic firmament.
stock tragedian n.
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1847 Theatr. Times 11 Sept. 283/2 Mr. Gustavus V. Brooke is perhaps the greatest favourite in the provinces, as a stock tragedian.
(b)
stock actor n. etc., a member of a stock company, or one who acts in stock pieces; also stock actress.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor in specific type of play
comedy player1550
tragedy player1552
comediant1568
tragic1577
tragedian1590
comedian1603
comic1619
interludera1627
pastorista1627
tragicomediana1627
tragedy actor1690
low comedian1740
tragedy man1784
exodiary1793
farcer1813
monopolylogist1830
stock actor1839
beneficiaire1841
monologuist1853
monologist1858
burlesquer1869
opera-bouffer1870
low comedy1885
knockabout1887
farceur1889
folk-player1936
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer.: Pt. 2nd II. xiii. 121 The American stock actors, as they term those who are not considered as stars.
1865 W. Donaldson Recoll. Actor 95 A large proportion of the stock actors were..without talent or experience.
1921 E. O'Neill Diff'rent ii. 243 She resembles some passé stock actress of fifty made up for a heroine of twenty.
stock character n. a dramatic character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works; (cf. sense A. 3a below).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character
underpart1679
persona muta1714
travesty1732
soubrette1753
old man1762
small part?1774
breeches-part1779
character part1811
fat1812
chambermaida1828
fool?1835
raisonneur1845
ingénue1848
villain of the piece1854
stock character1864
feeder1866
satirette1870
character role1871
travesty1887
thinking part1890
walk-on1902
cardboard cutout1906
bit1926
good guy1928
feed1929
bad guy1932
goody1934
walkthrough1935
narrator1941
cameo1950
black hat1959
1864 H. Morley Jrnl. 16 Jan. (1866) 325 The gracioso was a popular addition made by Lope de Vega to the stock characters of a Spanish play.
1893 H. B. Clarke Spanish Lit. 220 The stock characters, the galán and dama, the gracioso and barba of their ‘sword and cloak’ plays.
1976 Country Life 12 Feb. 346/1 In Albert Herring, Britten took stock characters—pompous mayor, stolid policeman,..overbearing lady of the manor.
stock company n. a company who regularly act together at a particular theatre.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > company of actors > types of company
commonwealth1811
fit-up1864
stock company1864
repertory company1885
road company1885
stock1916
playshop1926
repertory1933
theatre workshop1945
rep1959
1864 J. G. Bertram Glimpses Real Life 37 I..being at the time one of the stock company of the Beverley Theatre, New York.
stock piece n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1804 W. Cooke Mem. C. Macklin 408 It was always one of the stock pieces which he engaged himself to perform.
1805 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 3 76 Their classical stock pieces.
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 4 135 His..acting contributed greatly to the success of the drama, though it had not sufficient stamina to become ‘a stock piece’.
stock play n. etc., one which forms part of a répertoire.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1708 J. Downes Roscius Anglicanus 8 (note) That these being their Principal Old Stock Plays.
1761 B. Victor Hist. Theatres London & Dublin I. 65 Time..wasted in rehearsing old Stock Plays, for the Sake of the new Performers to be introduced in them.
1807 Director I. 260 The Beggars Opera is what is termed a stock play with us.
c. Special collocations:
stock bowler n. Cricket a reliable but unspectacular bowler.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler
slow bowler1823
fast bowler1828
bias bowler1854
round-arm1858
demon bowler1861
left-hander1864
chucker1882
lobster1889
slow1895
leg-breaker1904
speed merchant1913
leg-spinner1920
spin bowler1920
off-spinner1924
quickie1934
tweaker1935
swerve-bowler1944
pace bowler1947
seam bowler1948
spinner1951
seamer1952
wrist-spinner1957
outswinger1958
swing bowler1958
quick1960
stock bowler1968
paceman1972
leggy1979
1968 Listener 11 July 61/2 Connolly, in 1964 a strenuous but pedestrian fast bowler, has reduced his pace, developed swing and cut, and become an admirably steady stock-bowler.
1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 37 I could no more be regarded as a stock bowler relying on line and length to keep the scoring in check.
stock bowling n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [adjective] > types of bowler
straight-armed1827
round1831
round-arm1835
lobbing1840
underhand1848
skimming1851
right arm1877
fastish1884
quick1922
quickish1939
off-spinning1955
stock bowling1976
1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 77 Only occasionally did he call upon me to do a stock bowling job with the intention of closing the game up.
stock response n. an automatic and superficial reaction to a literary device (see quot. 1939); also transferred and figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > self-evident truth, axiom > [noun] > trite saying, commonplace
commonplace1560
household word1574
scholium1830
commonplaceism1831
banality1861
bromide1906
stock response1925
tag-phrase1933
1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. xxv. 203 Against these stock responses the artist's internal and external conflicts are fought, and with them the popular writer's triumphs are made.
1939 C. Brooks & R. P. Warren Understanding Poetry 639 Stock response, the general uncritical response made on conventional or habitual grounds to a situation, subject, phrase, or word in literature. Advertisers frequently attempt to appeal to stock responses.
1957 A. Thwaite Home Truths 40 Or will it seem Merely the self-duped mind's harangue at Death, The stock-response still raging in the shroud?
1961 K. Tynan Curtains i. 8 The stock response of terror in the face of matricide has vanished.
1966 ‘K. A. Saddler’ Gilt Edge ix. 128 ‘Well,’ he said continuing, and just in time as I was running out of stock responses.
1975 Times 20 Sept. 6/3 If Agatha Christie works almost entirely with what the critics call ‘stock responses’, she knows..how to take advantage of our responding in a stock way to..stock situations.
Draft additions 1993
On a set of bagpipes, any of the wooden sockets, fixed in holes in the bag, into which the pipes and chanter fit. Originally Scottish.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe > wooden sockets
stock1876
1876 D. MacPhee Compl. Tutor for Highland Bagpipe in Bagpipe Wks. (1978) p. iv In doing this it is necessary to take off the cover and cork the Stocks securely.
1906 ‘H. Foulis’ Vital Spark xiv. 102 There's nothing will put a pipe bag in trum but some treacle poured in by the stock.
1925 W. A. Cocks Tutor for Northumberland Half-Long Bagpipes 7 A few spoonfuls are warmed and poured into the bag after removing the drones and chanter and corking up the stocks.
1966 F. Collinson Trad. Mus. Scotl. 169 The small-pipes, both Lowland and Highland, are alike in other respects, and all have drones in one stock.
1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments I. 99/1 The chanter, drones and blowpipes are attached to the bag by being inserted into tubular wooden stocks which are tied into apertures in the leather.
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stock option n. Finance a right to buy or sell a particular stock at a specified price on or before a particular date; esp. a benefit in the form of an option given by a company to an employee to buy stock in the company at a discount or at a stated fixed price; cf. option n. 6a.
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society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun] > option
option1746
privilege1848
stock option1877
1877 Manch. Guardian 27 Jan. 5/3 (advt.) The key to stock exchange speculation... A ‘Bull’. A ‘Bear’. Stock Options, &c. Post free on application.
1933 Time 8 May 47/3 President Sewell Lee Avery..explained that he had refused an offer of $100,000 a year to take the job until the stock option was offered as an added inducement.
2003 E. Winslow Blind Faith Introd. 4 Stock options grant high-paid executives a free lottery ticket to riches beyond imagination.
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stock footage n. film or video footage that can be used or is designed to be used in films for which it was not specifically made.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > [noun] > footage
stock footage1931
footage1951
1931 Variety 18 Aug. 2/3 (headline) Preparing bill against stock footage.
1978 R. Taylor in J. G. Shaheen Nucl. War Films xix. 131 Document, in addition to showing stock footage of the atomic holocaust, goes a step further by explaining the human effects.
2008 Guardian (Nexis) 26 Jan. 64 Most royalty-free stock footage still costs money to use.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† stockn.2
Scottish. Obsolete.
Old English. A trumpet.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trumpet
bemea800
stockc950
trump1297
buysine1340
trumpeta1393
swash1533
slug-horna1770
horn1935
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. vi. 2 Bema vel stocc [gl. tuba].
Compounds
stock-horn n. Scottish = stock-and-horn n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > horn > [noun] > other horns
earth horn?a1400
oliphantc1400
ruetc1400
buck-hornc1550
stock-horn1597
bell-horna1640
sea-cornet1653
dudeen?1790
carnyx1810
shofar1833
wonder-horn1864
handhorn1871
post-horn1881
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Menetum To blaw ane stock horne, quhilk commounlie is maid of Timmer & wood, or tree, with circles & girds of the same, quhilk is zet vsed in the Hie-lands and Iles of this realme.
stock-and-horn n. Scottish a wind instrument formerly used in Scotland (see quots.).
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1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i When I begin to tune my stock and horn.
1827 Hone's Every-day Bk. II. 20 The kythels, or stock-and-horn, a musical instrument made of the thigh bone of a sheep and the horn of a bullock.
1844 Ayrshire Wreath 170 The first instrument he played on was a stock and horn.
stock-in-horn n. Scottish = stock-and-horn n.
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1815 Wks. of Alexander Pennecuik 96 (note) The original genuine Scottish pastoral pipe, from Stoc, in gaelic, a pipe, called the Stock-in-horn, consisting of a cow's horn, a bower tree stock, with stops, in the middle, and an oaten reed at the smaller end for the mouth piece.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
† stockn.3
Obsolete.
1. A thrusting sword. Also in combination stock-sword.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > thrusting sword
stock1513
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xii. 59 Wyth round stok suerdis faucht thai in melle, Wyth poyntalis, or wyth stokkis Sabylyne.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. x. xvi. f. 146v/2 Thay..had..stok swerdis quhom na armour micht resist.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 177 A stog sweard.
2. Fencing. A thrust with a pointed weapon.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
buttc1330
overheadc1400
stopc1450
quarter-strokea1456
rabbeta1500
rakea1500
traverse1547
flourish1552
quarter-blow1555
veny1578
alarm1579
venue1591
cut1593
time1594
caricado1595
fincture1595
imbroccata1595
mandritta1595
punta riversa1595
remove1595
stramazon1595
traversa1595
imbrocado1597
passado1597
counter-time1598
foinery1598
canvasado1601
montant1601
punto1601
stock1602
embrocadoc1604
pass1604
stuck1604
stramazo1606
home thrust1622
longee1625
falsify?1635
false1637
traversion1637
canvassa1641
parade1652
flanconade1664
parry1673
fore-stroke1674
allonge1675
contretemps1684
counter1684
disengaging1684
feint1684
passing1687
under-counter1687
stringere1688
stringering1688
tempo1688
volte1688
overlapping1692
repost1692
volt-coupe1692
volting1692
disarm?1700
stamp1705
passade1706
riposte1707
swoop1711
retreat1734
lunge1748
beat1753
disengage1771
disengagement1771
opposition1771
time thrust1771
timing1771
whip1771
shifting1793
one-two1809
one-two-three1809
salute1809
estramazone1820
remise1823
engage1833
engaging1833
risposta1838
lunging1847
moulinet1861
reprise1861
stop-thrust1861
engagement1881
coupé1889
scrape1889
time attack1889
traverse1892
cut-over1897
tac-au-tac riposte1907
flèche1928
replacement1933
punta dritta1961
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. iii. 24 To see thee passe the punto. The stock, the reuerse, the distance: the montnce.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. ii. B 3 Here is a fellow Iudicio that carried the deadly stocke [MS. variant stockado] in his pen.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iii. sig. B2 And if a horned diuell should burst forth, I would passe on him with a mortall stocke.
1604 J. Marston Malcontent ii. ii. sig. C4 The close stock, ô mortall wench.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
stockn.4
/stɒk/, U.S. /stɑk/ Mining and Geology.
a. (See quots.)
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > irregular
pipework1653
stock-work1808
carbona1843
stock1882
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iv. ix. §2. 597 The cavernous spaces dissolved out in some rocks..may be filled with..ores. Irregular metalliferous masses of this kind have long been known in Germany by the name of Stocks (Stöcke).
1901 F. L. Ransome in 22nd Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv. 1900–1: Pt. 2 255 Stocks are those ore bodies commonly referred to as ‘chimneys’.
b. A discordant intrusion of igneous rock which has a roughly oval cross-section and steep sides, and is smaller than a batholith.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > intrusion > others
laccolite1877
xenolith1894
bysmalith1898
stock1898
autolith1900
bathylite1902
phacolite1909
phacolith1910
cupola1911
lopolith1918
1898 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 6 706 It will be found advantageous to discriminate between bysmalith and stock by limiting the term stock to such bodies as occupy nearly vertical tubes or funnels of indefinite depth in rocks of any and all kinds..and which maintain such a relation to them as to appear to belong to the category of dikes.
1916 Yukon Territory (Canada Dept. Interior) iii. 35 Occasional pebbles derived from the various dikes and stocks outcropping along the valleys.
1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. vi. 86 There are few good examples of laccoliths in Britain, though many stocks have been wrongly called laccoliths. Stocks are discordant intrusions, whereas laccoliths, like sills, are concordant.
1955 Econ. Geol. L. 715 Four locations where sills, dikes, and stocks intrude or cut off the phosphate-bearing beds.
1957 Mineral. Mag. XXXI. 588 This block is intruded by three stock-like masses of fine-grained granite.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 69/1 The upper surface [of a batholith] is generally irregular, with upwardly projecting stocks and dikes that may be the only surface clue to the much larger body at depth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stockv.1
/stɒk/, U.S. /stɑk/ I. Senses relating to material senses of the noun.† 1. † b. ? To fasten or confine (the tongue) as a punishment. Obsolete.† c. transferred and figurative. Obsolete.† 3. † 4. ? To make a stock of, use as a stock for grafting. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To set in the stocks; to punish by confining the feet (occasionally the hands) in stocks; in early use, to subject to rigorous imprisonment. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > set in stocks or pillory
stockc1325
scourc1450
pillory?a1600
pillor1638
impillor1645
pillorize1647
c1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 163 E pur co ke seygnur fet coingner [glossed stokken] Soun neif en ceps pur chastier.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 121 Scho stokked [Fr. ad fet mettre en ceppes] Kyng Steuen.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 380 Rather deye I wolde,..stokked in presoun.
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xv. 32 To liue in prison..And to be stocked under key and locke.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 476/2 Stokkyn, or settyn in stokkys, cippo.
1451 Memorandum of Prosecutions in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 527 They stokked hym and hese sone at Swaffham.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xx. sig. S.iii He nedeth neyther to coller vs, nor to stocke vs, for anye feare of scapyng awaye.
1571 Life J. Story in Morgan Phoenix Brit. (1732) I. 292 Some were stocked in both Feet and Arms; some also were stocked by both their Feet and by both their Thumbs, and so did hang in the Stocks.
1641 G. Raleigh Albania 13 She came by a Constable stocking the Drunkard.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 191 The Hand steals, the Feet are stocked.
1694 W. Penn Brief Acct. Rise Quakers v. 85 Being often Stockt, Stoned, Beaten, Whipt and Imprisoned.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > inflict other means of torture
to bore outc1400
stock1568
1568 V. Skinner tr. R. González de Montes Discouery Inquisition of Spayne f. 51v Streight way the felow should be sure to haue his mouth gagged, or his toung stocked, to teach him to be quiet.
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1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 193 The Dragon..doth fold About his fore-legs fetter'd in such order, That stocked thear, he now can stir no furder.
a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 921 In his Ruffe, and at his greatest Height, He shall be stocked in full many a Strait.
d. with allusion to stock n.1 2.
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a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. i. 30 in Wks. (1640) III Whilst shee (poor Lasse) is stock'd up in a tree: Your brother Lorells prize! View more context for this quotation
2. To fasten to or fit with a stock: esp.
a. To fix (a bell) to its stock.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > making or fitting instruments > accessories [verb (transitive)] > fit bell
stock1483
steeple1644
yoke1701
tuck1860
1483–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 34 The lytell Belle that was newe stokyt.
1600–1 in F. N. A. Garry & A. G. Garry Churchwardens' Accts. St. Mary's, Reading (1893) 86 Item to Richard hames for stoking the Belles & hanginge them, vijs. vjd.
1679 in Trans. Shropshire Arch. Soc. (1908) 3rd Ser. 8 37 For stocking of ye Treble Bell..6. 8.
1857 W. C. Lukis Acct. Church Bells 28 The heavy expense..of taking the bell down to be stocked afresh.
b. To fit (a gun, crossbow) with a stock.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > produce or develop arms [verb (transitive)] > fit crossbow with stock
stock1539
society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > produce or develop arms [verb (transitive)] > processes in gun-making
stock1539
ranforce1547
newel1611
rifle1619
fortify1627
screw1635
chamber1708
reborea1792
flint1803
restocking1805
vent1828
percussionize1832
ream1841
percussion1844
restock1844
retube1846
revent1864
reline1875
sleeve1976
1539 W. Ewre Indentures Castell of Berwyke in Archaeologia (1794) 11 436 A fowler of iron stokked and bounde with iron.
1541 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 119 Gevin to Johnne Drummond to stok ane grete culvering witht,..xviij s.
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. v. 17 Our Gunnes that are stocked with English Wallnut.
1649 in W. M. Myddelton Churk Castle Acc. (1908) 27 For stocking a crosse bow.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 101/2 A fine gun, which he forged, stocked, made, and completed himself.
1832 Westm. Rev. 17 327 Shungie the great warrior..succeeded in stocking one of his musquets in a very elegant manner.
1904 Field 6 Feb. 209/3 There is..no other plan of efficiently stocking a ready-made gun.
c. Nautical. To fix the stock upon (an anchor).
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > prepare anchor in specific ways
cockbill1726
stock1769
to scow an anchor1878
1769 J. Cook Voy. round World (1893) 86 The Carpenter employ'd in stocking the Anchors.
1803 T. Netherton in Naval Chron. 15 214 Those employed in..stocking anchors.
d. (See quot. 1909.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > harness or yoke
yokeOE
harness13..
cart-saddle1377
join1377
couple1393
enharness1490
benda1522
bind1535
span1550
team1552
spang1580
inyoke1595
trace1605
enclose?1615
gear1638
to get in1687
reharness1775
reyoke1813
to hook up1825
inspan1834
hitch1844
pole1846
stock1909
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stock,..3..to secure, by or to a stock; as, two plows stocked to one frame.
e. Nautical. to stock to: to haul (an anchor) into a perpendicular position by means of a stock-tackle.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > haul (anchor) perpendicular
to stock to1815
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) To Stock-to the Anchor.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 57 It is then stocked to, and lashed, and the stock tackle is un~hooked.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
a. ? To cover (the leg) with a stock or stocking. rare.
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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
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ix. x. 201 b Their breche enbroudred after ye guise of old, Fret with pearle, legge stocked to the kne.
b. To cover (hose) with some stronger material; to strengthen (stockings) with pieces of cloth sewn on. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > make other clothing [verb (transitive)] > carry out specific processes
stock1520
sole1570
toe1608
tag1627
foot1663
refoot1827
re-cover1896
1520 in Archaeologia 25 435 A yerd of black to stock my master's hose.
1545–6 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 443 Ane pair of hois of his gracis stokkit witht blew velvot.
1691 London Gaz. No. 2633/4 Grey Breeches, and grey Stockings newly stock'd.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > a cutting: graft > a stock: graft upon
stock1528
graff1564
work1606
graft1624
engrafta1677
1528 W. Tyndale That Fayth Mother of All Good Workes G viij God..planteth them in the garden of his mercye, and stocketh them & graffeth the spiryte of Chryst in them.
5. Leather Manufacturing. To beat (hides) in the stocks.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > other processes
curry14..
shave1467
dress1511
slaughter1603
raise1607
scutch1688
chamois1728
braya1835
break1842
fellmonger1843
fire-cure1848
crimp1849
board1860
pebble1862
soft-board1878
sam1883
stock1883
nourish1884
buff1885
pinwheel1885
sammy1885
wheel1885
unlime1888
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 367/1 When the skins are dry, they are ‘stocked’ with oil again.
II. To pull up or fell.
6. To root up, pull up by the roots (trees, stumps, weeds, etc.); to extirpate by digging or grubbing; to fell (a tree) by digging round and cutting its roots with a mattock or similar instrument.figurative.1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 765/1 He saith wee must stocke vp all the thorns that are in vs.1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxx. iii. 381 That the occasion of discord might not possibly bee stocked up by the rootes, without [etc.].1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxvi. 10) 204 The Apostle Paul so strives to stock up by the roots that wretched opinion.1674 J. Bryan Harvest-home vii. 47 A root of bitter gall, And wormwood, never stockt up wholly.
a. simply.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > fell timber
fellOE
hewc1000
hewc1175
cutc1300
falla1325
stockc1440
to take down1818
droop1819
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > remove roots
stockc1440
stock1458
extirp1490
displanta1492
supplant1549
stub1555
grub1558
to stump up1599
averruncate1623
extirpate1651
stump1791
c1440 Pallad. on Husb. x. 92 This tyme is to be stocked euery tre.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiv. 228 The painfull laborers hand shall stock the roots, to burne.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vi. 210 Two able workmen were 5 days in stocking or felling it down.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 300 Stocking them [sc. thistles] with an Iron Paddle.
1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties I. 102 Three methods of felling are here in use: Stocking, Axe-grubbing, and Axe-falling.
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 101 To stock,..To strike and wrench with an axe having a flat end.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Stock, to cut off the branches from the trunk, or the long roots from the stump of a tree.
b. with up (very frequent); rarely out.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > lumber [verb (intransitive)] > fell tree
stock1458
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > remove roots
stockc1440
stock1458
extirp1490
displanta1492
supplant1549
stub1555
grub1558
to stump up1599
averruncate1623
extirpate1651
stump1791
the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > root up
stock1674
1458 Anc. Deed A. 7587 (P.R.O.) To stokke and hewe vppe to be þe Rotes alle maner of Busshes þornes and trees.
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng v. f. 4v Demeyne woode..whereof the lorde at his pleasure, may assert, stocke vp by the rootes [etc.].
1678 H. Croft Second Call 47 The Husbandman finding but a few Thistles and Briars in his Meadow, stocks them up.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 134 The Root..should not be sawed or cut down at bottom, but stock'd and grub'd entirely up.
1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex 119 This tract of land..abounded with trees and bushes, which seemed to make it necessary for the cultivator to..stock out the roots.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1194 Instead of stocking up his rattoons, holing, and planting the land anew, the planter suffers the stoles to continue in the ground.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Stock-up, to stub up, grub up.
c. transferred. To pull up (stones, a fence); to break or loosen (the surface of the ground with a pick). Usually with up.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] > with pick
to pick upc1400
stock1802
society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > dig (hole, etc.) > dig or break up (ground)
delvec888
dig1382
gruba1400
stubc1450
cast1497
sheugh1513
to search upc1540
stock1802
1802 W. Hutton Life 78 At the foot of this artificial hill stood the castle. The people of the country have stocked up the stones to the very foundation for building and the roads.
1879 T. Codrington Macadamised Roads 91 The practice of picking up or loosening the surface of a road with a pick, sometimes called ‘stocking’.
1879 T. Codrington Macadamised Roads 92 Picking or stocking up the surface before laying fresh materials.
1907 Gentleman's Mag. July 38 This waste land would be only gradually stocked, or grubbed up.
III. To check in growth; to stiffen.† 8. reflexive. ? To be stubborn, refuse obedience; to render oneself callous or incapable of feeling. Obsolete.
7. To stunt, check in growth (a plant or animal). Chiefly in past participle stocked (modern dialect also stocken, stoken). Also intransitive, to be stunted in growth. dialect.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (transitive)] > types of growth
elongc1420
stump1596
outgrow1597
stock1607
dwarf1623
stunt1679
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > check growth
stock1607
stint1735
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (intransitive)] > check growth
stock1853
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow > atrophy or become stunted
stunt1706
abort1754
stock1853
atrophy1865
hypertrophy1883
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 88 If anye of them [sc. mares]..eyther through want of milke, or the doggednes of some vnnaturall quality, shall stocke and starue their foales.
a1655 R. Robinson Christ All (1656) xvii. 362 The husbandman useth to say of his corne in a time of long drought, that it is stocked, yet that corne when the raine comes, will shoot up.
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 385 The Corn that's thus discolour'd, is usually stock'd, as the Husbandmen call it, that is, does not come up to the Strength and Perfection of the rest that escapes this Injury.
1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 91 Stocked, stopped in growth. ‘The lambs are almost stocked by the cold weather.’
1851 [see sense 9]. 1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 ii. 452 The most profitable mode of bringing young or store stock to market is, never to allow them to ‘stock’, or be impeded in their growth.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Stoken, stunted in growth; impoverished in condition; said of animals that have been badly fed and attended to.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make oneself incapable of feeling [verb (reflexive)]
stock1610
the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > be obstinate or stubborn [verb (reflexive)]
stock1610
1610 J. Robinson Justif. Separation from Church of Eng. 23 We must so enioy experienced good things, as we stock not our selves in respect of other things, as yet vntryed.
1634 J. Canne Necessitie of Separation ii. 121 Sound comfort flowes from sincere obedience: and therefore whosoever stocks himselfe, in any the least parts of the revealed will of God, he is as Iehu, rotten at the best, even when he manifesteth most shew of Religion.
9. local. To indurate (stone) by exposure to the weather. ? Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > formation of rock or stone > [verb (transitive)] > indurate
stock1712
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 489 Should the [Slate] Stones lie expos'd to Sun and Wind, before the Frosts appear, it would in such manner set or stock the Vein, as the Workmen speak, that they wou'd not cleave.
1851 T. Sternberg Dial. & Folk-lore Northants. 106 Some kinds of stone are said to be stocked, when, by exposure to the weather, they become indurated. Wheat, also, is said to be stocked when its growth has been checked by an analogous cause.
10. intransitive. Scottish. (See quot. 1808.)
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the world > life > the body > loose or stiff condition > [verb (intransitive)]
stock1808
swacken1818
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Stock, to become stiff, to be benumbed…we say that one stocks, or that the limbs stock, from cold or want of exercise.
11. passive. To have place in a stock or genealogy. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > trace genealogies [verb (intransitive)] > have place in genealogy
stock1611
1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. F4 A person both of Blood and Honor, stock't In a long race of vertuous Ancestors. View more context for this quotation
V. To supply with a ‘stock’, fund, or store.† 13. To provide with capital or funds. Obsolete.† 14. To invest (money). Also with in, out. Obsolete.
12.
a. transitive. To supply or provide with stock or with a stock; e.g. to furnish (a farm, estate, etc.) with live or dead stock; to fill (a pond, river) with fish; to furnish (a shop) with a stock-in-trade; to store or supply with goods, commodities, appliances, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > rear animals [verb (transitive)] > fill or stock with animals
repletec1540
repeople1639
stocka1640
the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > stock (a place, etc.) with something
fillOE
store1264
pitchc1300
stuffc1386
fretc1400
replete?a1425
enstorea1450
engrange1480
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freightc1503
people1581
stocka1640
stack1652
bestore1661
to lay in1662
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > management of pasture > use as pasture [verb (transitive)] > stock or overstock pasture
surcharge1480
overlay?1523
stocka1640
overstock1842
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ffff2v/1 Hee has bought the great Farme..and stock'd it like an Emperor.
1648 Hunting of Fox 41 Your Cattell that should stocke your grounds.
1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 120 There were several sorts of fruit brought to us..with which we stock't ourselves.
1707 J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 164 Your Lordship knows how well stock'd with Mony you left us.
1713 R. North Disc. Fish & Fish-ponds xiii. 48 The Fish wherewith you stock the Waters.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vi. 75 Some tradesmen are very fond of seeing their shops well stockt, and their warehouses full of goods.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiv. 423 The country was plentifully stocked with provisions.
1812 G. Crabbe Tales xxi. 385 Here, take my purse..('Tis fairly stock'd).
1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iv. 64 Some laid out their earnings in stocking a little shop.
1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. iv. 85 Many of his cattle burst away from him... He stocked himself again among the Batleti.
1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxxix Instead of putting his money by to stock farms for his sons.
1899 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. IV. 29 The cellar was stocked with Rhenish Wine.
b. in general, transferred, and figurative uses.
ΚΠ
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man iii. iv. sig. G4 Shee from the magazine of her proper goodnesse, Stock'd me with vertuous purposes.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 29 With many such memorable passages, the reader may stock himself from the pens of the civil Historians.
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. viii. 353 Here..occurs such a plenty..as is able to stock an Antiquary of the first Size.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 44 Sidon is stockt well enough with Inhabitants.
1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 9 The Island is thoroughly stock'd with Churches and Chapels.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor iii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 40 Those legendary heroines, with whose adventures, for want of better reading, her memory had become stocked.
1829 S. H. Cassan Lives Bishops of Bath & Wells 134 It looks not well, to see a Cathedral or diocese stocked with relatives and family connections.
1864 T. McLauchlan Early Sc. Church (1865) 416 David changed the priory into an abbey and stocked it with monks from Canterbury in 1124.
1885 Truth 28 May 841/1 The office is stocked with the scions of the families or the friends of Judges.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > provide with capital
stock1615
finance1783
financier1873
capitalize1878
fund1900
angel1904
bankroll1915
1615 E. S. Britaines Busse E 1 b The First yeares cleare Gaine will stocke him or them so sufficiently for the use of this busse, as [etc.].
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 123 Never King had a greater mind to the work, then King Charles, had he been stockt for it: but poverty..kept him short.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [verb (transitive)] > invest
improve1461
occupy1465
to put out1572
vie1598
put1604
stock1683
sink1699
place1700
vest1719
fund1778
embark1832
to put forth1896
1683 Repr. Advantages Manuf. Woollen-cloath 20 Each Member drawes a lot for every 100 Pound he Stocks in.
1714 W. Forbes Jrnl. Session 1705–13 420 Watson..bequeathed..the Sum of 5400 Merks Scots to be stocked in a responsible Debtor's Hand.
1796 Cases Court of Session 1794–5 76 Although this minister is to sell the marl, he does not apply the price to his own use; it is to be stocked out for the benefit of the incumbent.
15.
a. To lay up in store; to form a stock or supply of (a commodity). Also with up.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)]
again-layOE
to put upc1330
to lay up?a1366
bestow1393
to set up1421
reserve1480
powder1530
store1552
uplay1591
garnera1616
storea1616
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reposit1630
barrel1631
magazine1643
stock1700
to salt down1849
reservoir1858
tidy1867
larder1904
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 114 Every day a Crop is gather'd, and every Night..stockt up in Baskets.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Stock,..to lay in a large Quantity of any sort of Goods, &c.
1755–73 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (ed. 4) Stock..to lay up in store; as, he stocks what he cannot use.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. viii. 177 The wine was stocked in the deep vaults of Bracquemont, by my great-grandfather.
b. esp. To keep (goods) in stock for sale.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > sell [verb (transitive)] > have for sale or sell habitually
sellc1000
keep1706
carry1866
stock1884
1884 Bookseller 1178/1 To refuse to stock the goods of the publishers who supply these cutters out.
1886 Cyclist 6 Oct. 1324/1 It will be perfectly safe to stock a well-considered variety of this style of machine.
1888 Spectator 21 July 1016 (advt.) All the..Wholesale Houses regularly Stock it.
16. absol. To provide stock; to lay in a stock or supply. Also with up.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply [verb (intransitive)] > specific oneself > lay in a stock or supply
stock1850
1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 613 Although my land is of very inferior quality, I stock heavily.
1876 Callis Cutlery (Brit. Manuf. Industr.) 173 His fellow, who works for a house that does not ‘stock,’ has to collect the material from half a dozen warehouses.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream vii. 68 I shall decide to stock up as soon as the fences are finished.
1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 416 She was over to Lovewell stockin' up for Thanksgivin'.
1908 Nation 22 Aug. 734/1 They ‘stock’ year by year: but they do so with fish reared from native spawn.
VI. Various technical and dialect senses.
17. passive. Of a female animal: To be impregnated.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > conceive
pondrec1450
stock1478
hold1607
1478 [implied in: Acta Audit. (1839) 74/2 xij stokit meris and a stag of a ȝere auld. (at stocked adj. 2)].
1490 [implied in: 1490 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 146/2 A stokkit mere and hir foloware price iiij li. (at stocked adj. 2)].
1894 West Sussex Gaz. (advt.) Three-year-old Jersey Cow, stocked March 5th.
18. transitive. To leave (a cow) unmilked in order that she may make a good show at market.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > leave unmilked
stock1683
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 485 Neither do our leathern Dublets stock their Cows, that is [etc.].
1798 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses II. 156 There is also a cruel folly prevalent among cow-jobbers, namely that of stocking the cows, as it is called.
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.
19. intransitive. Of corn, grass, etc.: To send out shoots, sprout, tiller. ? Now only Scottish.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > sprout or put forth new growth
spriteOE
wrideOE
brodc1175
comea1225
spirec1325
chicka1400
sprouta1400
germin?1440
germ1483
chip?a1500
spurgea1500
to put forth1530
shootc1560
spear1570
stock1574
chit1601
breward1609
pullulate1618
ysproutc1620
egerminate1623
put1623
germinate1626
sprent1647
fruticate1657
stalk1666
tiller1677
breerc1700
fork1707
to put out1731
stool1770
sucker1802
stir1843
push1855
braird1865
fibre1869
flush1877
1574 R. Scot Perfite Platf. of Hoppe Garden (1578) 18 The Hoppe never stocketh kindelye vntyll it reache higher than the Poale.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 37v Yf you mingle Otes with the seede of Medica, and sowe them, they wyll cause them to stocke very well.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 164 Land in good order ought to be sown thin, because the grain will stock, the straw will be strong [etc.].
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/1 Stocking (Scot.), the tillering of grain crops in spring.
a1882 Scotsman (O.) About two months ago broad blanks were to be seen on many oatfields, and though they have stocked a little, the crop is yet far too thin.
20.
a. transitive. To sow (land) with grass or clover. Also with down: To lay down to grass, etc. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > crop with grass or hay
turfc1430
sod1652
hay1708
meadow1768
to throw down1778
verd1778
grass1795
returf1824
stock1828
1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stock..to supply with seed; as, to stock land with clover or herdsgrass. American farmers.
1870 Daily News 16 Apr. In the following year it is sown to oats, and ‘stocked down’ with clover and grass seed.
1891 Cent. Dict. Stock..to furnish with a permanent growth, especially with grass: as, to stock a pasture.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stock down, Agric., to sow, as plowed land, with seed of grass or other permanent forage crop.
b. Of weeds: ? To overrun, choke (land) with their growth.
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > hinder growth of other plants [verb (transitive)] > strangle or choke
stranglec1384
choke1526
stock1765
strangulate1835
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 187 If they are suffered to seed, they will soon stock the land.
21. To cause to be cropped or eaten by cattle; to use (land) as pasture.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > management of pasture > use as pasture [verb (transitive)]
pasture1434
agista1450
graze1603
impasture1649
feeda1652
summer eat1727
stock1794
1794 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Cambr. 188 The first year of the new grass it is stocked very hard with sheep.
1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 625 There is a limit to the extent to which we can stock and crop land.
1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 636 The best plan was to place them upon old grass-land, which had not been stocked with sheep through the previous part of the year.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) It is common to let pasture ‘only to be stocked’—i.e. depastured, not to be mown for hay.
1909 Nation 18 Sept. 881/1 Fields of dry grey uneaten bennets that have been too sparsely stocked.
22. intransitive. Of livestock: To bear being crowded on pasture land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (intransitive)] > bear crowding on pasture
stock1863
1863 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 24 477 The Shropshires [i.e. sheep] upon the rich and heavy land of the Vales have this peculiar merit: they will stock thickly.
23. transitive.
a. To put (playing cards) together in a pack.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > heap cards or place together > in pack
stock1735
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Stock,..in Gaming, to put the Cards together again without playing them.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stock ..4. To pack; to put into a pack; as, to stock cards.
b. To arrange or shuffle fraudulently.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > cheat someone at cards [verb (transitive)] > methods of cheating
pack1575
palm1671
spur1674
slip1807
stack1825
pass1859
stock1864
riffle1891
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) (at cited word) To stock cards, is to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes.
1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ vi. 147 He is enabled to know when the stocked cards are being given off and who has them.
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stockv.2
/stɒk/, U.S. /stɑk/ Now dialect.† 1. transitive. To strike or hit with a thrust of a pointed weapon. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with sharp weapon
woundc760
stickOE
snese?c1225
stokea1300
steekc1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
chop1362
broach1377
foinc1380
strikec1390
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
stitch1527
falchiona1529
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
stob?1530
rutc1540
rove?c1550
push1551
foxa1566
stoga1572
poniard1593
dirk1599
bestab1600
poach1602
stiletto1613
stocka1640
inrun1653
stoccado1677
dagger1694
whip1699
bayonetc1700
tomahawk1711
stug1722
chiv1725
kittle1786
sabre1790
halberd1825
jab1825
skewer1837
sword1863
poke1866
spear1869
whinger1892
pig-stick1902
shiv1926
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon
prickOE
pritchOE
snese?c1225
threstc1275
stokea1300
bearc1330
stangc1340
broach1377
foinc1380
borea1400
dag?a1400
gorea1400
gridea1400
slot?a1400
staira1400
through-girdc1405
thrustc1410
runc1425
to run throughc1425
traversec1425
spitc1430
through-seeka1500
to run in1509
stab1530
to stab (a person) in1530
accloy1543
push1551
stoga1572
poacha1616
stocka1640
stoccado1677
stug1722
kittle1820
skewer1837
pitchfork1854
poke1866
chib1973
a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure iii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Sssss/1 In my young daies A Chevalier would stock a needles point Three times together.
2. Of a bird: To peck, peck at; to make (a hole) by pecking. Also, to root up with the beak (cf. stock v.1 6). Also intransitive. To peck away (at).
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the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > peck
beak?c1225
pecka1382
to pick at ——a1449
bill1496
stock1653
the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > peck
billc1220
beak?c1225
pecka1398
joba1500
neba1819
peggle1854
stock1893
1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 24 Some Birds first make their way into a hard tree by stocking a hole in it.
1669 J. Flavell Husbandry Spiritualized i. xiii. 115 Corn..but slightly covered, is stockt up as soon as it begins to sprout, by Rooks and other devouring fowls.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iii. 66 The Polyborus Chimango..injure the potato crops in Chiloe, by stocking up the roots when first planted.
1843 Zoologist 1 368 Rooks have at times seriously injured fields of young grass, by stocking up the red clover plants.
1844 E. Jesse Scenes Country Life I. 213 He observed a young cock..stock with his beak the mice as fast as they fell to the ground.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Stock, to peck; of a bird pulling up seed corn.
1893 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 505 There were the old rooks stocking away at the grubs and chafers.
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