[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stock \stock\ sto^k, v. t. imp.  p. p. stocked
   sto^kt; p. pr.  vb. n. stocking.
   1. to lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as
      merchandise, and the like.
      1913 webster

   2. to provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to
      supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with
      goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle
      and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a
      permanent growth, especially of grass.
      1913 webster

   3. to suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more
      previous to sale, as cows.
      1913 webster

   4. to put in the stocks. r. --shak.
      1913 webster

   to stock an anchor naut., to fit it with a stock, or to
      fasten the stock firmly in place.

   to stock cards card playing, to arrange cards in a
      certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called to
      stack the deck. cant

   to stock down agric., to sow, as plowed land, with grass
      seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce
      grass.

   to stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.
      1913 webster
see also:
stocked stocking to stock an anchor to stock cards to stack the deck to stock down 
to stock up 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stocking \stock"ing\, v. t.
   to dress in gbs. --dryden.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

stocking \stock"ing\, n. from stock, which was formerly used
   of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
   upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.
   1. a close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually
      knit or woven.
      1913 webster

   2. any of various things resembling, or likened to, a
      stocking1; as:
      a a broad ring of color, differing from the general
          color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped;
          esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or
          knee of a dark-colored horse.
      b a knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually
          converted by a special process into an incandescent
          mantle for gas lighting.
          webster 1913 suppl.

   blue stocking. see bluestocking.

   stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other
      hosiery goods.
      1913 webster
see also:
stock blue stocking bluestocking stocking frame 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stocking
     adj : wearing stockings; "walks about in his stockinged or
           stocking feet" syn: stockinged
     n 1: close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in
          matched pairs usually used in the plural
     2: the activity of supplying a stock of something; "he
        supervised the stocking of the stream with trout"
see also:
stockinged 

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