Stocking
['stɒkɪŋ] or ['stɑkɪŋ]
Definition
(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).
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Definition
(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.
Editor: Tamara
Definition
n. a close covering for the foot and lower leg.—ns. Stockinet′ an elastic knitted fabric for under-garments; Stock′inger one who knits stockings; Stock′ing-frame a knitting-machine.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of stockings, denotes that you will derive pleasure from dissolute companionship. For a young woman to see her stockings ragged, or worn, foretells that she will be guilty of unwise, if not immoral conduct. To dream that she puts on fancy stockings, she will be fond of the attention of men, and she should be careful to whom she shows preference. If white ones appear to be on her feet, she is threatened with woeful disappointment or illness. See Knitting.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Woman's only savings for A Rainy Day.
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Examples
- Mrs Clennam and Jeremiah had exchanged a look; and had then looked, and looked still, at Affery, who sat mending the stocking with great assiduity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Sue followed her into church, sat next to her, and as soon as she could find a chance in went the stocking-needle into my lady's arm. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- They made me take off my boots and walk into the place in my stocking-feet. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She would give a day to the mending of two holes in a stocking any time, and think her mission nobly fulfilled when she had accomplished it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I glanced down at the foot from which the shoe was absent, and saw that the silk stocking on it, once white, now yellow, had been trodden ragged. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As to a stocking, I didn't know such a thing by name. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Aroused by the sound, the reddleman laid down his stocking, lit a lantern which hung beside him, and came out from the van. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was in its usual state; except that one of the windows was wide open, and Affery sat on its old-fashioned window-seat, mending a stocking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was wearing the same knitted stocking-cap. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The sheepskin was fresh dried and not tanned and as Robert Jordan rested his stocking feet on it he could feel it crackle like parchment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- While he darned the stocking his face became rigid with thought. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then she hadn't so much as a darned stocking or a cleaned pair of gloves in all her wardrobe. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The teapot, the old stocking-foot, the linen rag, the willow-pattern tureen will yield up their barren deposit in many a house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He laid down the stocking, arose from his seat, and took a leathern pouch from a hook in the corner of the van. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Has a stocking somewhere. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I had on wool stockings but Passini wore puttees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She was dressed in blue, with woollen yellow stockings, like the Bluecoat boys. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They wore a good deal of hair, not very neatly turned up behind, and were rather untidy about the shoes and stockings. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You see nothing extraordinary in the stockings, _as_ stockings, I trust, Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her blue, bright dress fluttered in the wind, her thick scarlet stockings were brilliant above the whiteness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I just ran in, she said, with these little stockings for the boy,--three pair, nice, warm woollen ones. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He wore very short trousers, and black cotton stockings, which, like the rest of his apparel, were particularly rusty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We should in the present times consider this as a very high price for a pair of stockings to a servant of the poorest and lowest order. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They're yours, there--' And with trembling, excited hands she put the coveted stockings under Ursula's pillow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Topsy hesitated; but, on a second order, pulled out of her bosom a little parcel done up in the foot of one of her own old stockings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I drew off my shoes, stockings, and breeches. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her stockings always disconcerted him, the pale-yellow stockings and the heavy heavy black shoes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He glided in, in his stockings, and held the door closed, while he spoke in a whisper. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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