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STOCKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of supplying a stock of something
Example:
he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stocking" is a kind of...):
provision; supply; supplying (the activity of supplying or providing something)
Derivation:
stock (provide or furnish with a stock of something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stocking" is a kind of...):
hose; hosiery (socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear))
Meronyms (parts of "stocking"):
instep (the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stocking"):
boothose (protective stockings worn with or in place of boots)
Christmas stocking (a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents)
knee-hi; knee-high (a sock or stocking that reaches up to just below the knees)
nylon stocking; nylons; rayon stocking; rayons; silk stocking (women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk))
support hose; support stocking (elasticized stocking intended to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg (as in case of varicose veins))
Holonyms ("stocking" is a part of...):
pantyhose (a woman's tights consisting of underpants and stockings)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb stock
Context examples:
A tight-fitting, elastic garment, such as a sleeve or stocking.
(Compression garment, NCI Dictionary)
My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
By the afternoon, one feeding and one, stacking up, they were running socks and stockings through the mangle while the irons were heating.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Two delightful twilight walks on the third and fourth evenings of her being there, not merely on the dry gravel of the shrubbery, but all over the grounds, and especially in the most distant parts of them, where there was something more of wildness than in the rest, where the trees were the oldest, and the grass was the longest and wettest, had—assisted by the still greater imprudence of sitting in her wet shoes and stockings—given Marianne a cold so violent as, though for a day or two trifled with or denied, would force itself by increasing ailments on the concern of every body, and the notice of herself.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
To keep swelling down, your health care provider may recommend keeping your legs raised when sitting, wearing support stockings, limiting how much salt you eat, or taking a medicine called a diuretic - also called a water pill.
(Edema, NIH)
In Meryton they parted; the two youngest repaired to the lodgings of one of the officers' wives, and Elizabeth continued her walk alone, crossing field after field at a quick pace, jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity, and finding herself at last within view of the house, with weary ankles, dirty stockings, and a face glowing with the warmth of exercise.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A chaise was sent for from Crewkherne, and Charles conveyed back a far more useful person in the old nursery-maid of the family, one who having brought up all the children, and seen the very last, the lingering and long-petted Master Harry, sent to school after his brothers, was now living in her deserted nursery to mend stockings and dress all the blains and bruises she could get near her, and who, consequently, was only too happy in being allowed to go and help nurse dear Miss Louisa.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
They were early, and while Miss Crocker set the heel of her stocking, Jo amused herself by examining the faces of the people who occupied the seat with them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then Mrs Fox said: Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has a little pointed mouth?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
You are well-rounded, a blue-stocking fit to be the wife of a pirate chief.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
