stocking

[stock·ing]

The activity of supplying a stock of something

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A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.

Noun
the activity of supplying a stock of something; "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout"

Noun
close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)

Adjective S.
wearing stockings; "walks about in his stockinged (or stocking) feet"

p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stock

n.
A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.

v. t.
To dress in GBs.

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.] A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.

Stocking

Stock"ing, v. t. To dress in GBs. Dryden.

A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.

To dress in GBs.

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Usage Examples

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

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Other Usage Examples

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.