substockn.
/ˈsʌbˌstɒk/, U.S. /ˈsəbˌstɑk/ A secondary, subsidiary, or subordinate stock.
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1835 T. T. Stoddart Art of Angling in Scotl. xii. 106 Previous to stocking it with this fish, a sub-stock of perch or trout should, by all means, be introduced.
1882 A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 15 Each lineal ancestor forms a stock and his family breaks up into sub-stocks.
1912 Power Wagon Nov. 52/2 Two or three sub-stocks for storing, at suitable shipping distance, are necessary for promptness, as very few agents can finance a complete stock.
1952 J. R. Swanton Indian Tribes N. Amer. (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 145) 639 Trique, a tribe entered by Mason and Johnson as a substock of their Otomanguean stock.
1998 Our Times May 29/2 Each species also includes hundreds of substocks, born to a specific river system.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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