stocking
sto king
- n close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
- n the activity of supplying a stock of something
he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout - v have on hand
- v equip with a stock
- v supply with fish
- v supply with livestock
- v amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- v provide or furnish with a stock of something
- v put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- Few things irritate a woman moreor more frequentlythan a run in her stocking.
- The silk, too, was a kind of scrap: old silk stockings.
- The Association of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York just finished counting the number of stockings made during 1925.