STOCKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stocking mean? 

• STOCKING (noun)
  The noun STOCKING has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: STOCKING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOCKING (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The activity of supplying a stock of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout

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)

 Context examples 

Shirts, stockings, cravats, and waistcoats faced her in each.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then he looked down, and saw that the blood streamed so much from the shoe, that her white stockings were quite red.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My dear, did you change your stockings?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My silk stockings and two pairs of new gloves are my comfort.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Of these I also made very tolerable stockings.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I took off my shoes when I gained the forecastle head, and went noiselessly aft in my stocking feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Peggotty sat with her chin on the foot of the stocking, looking silently at the fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Yet there is not one of them but hath an old stocking full of gold pieces hid away in a snug corner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he emerged from the throng he let his great-coat fly loose, and showed that he was dressed in his full fighting kit—black drawers, chocolate stockings, and white shoes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the time he lived with us the captain made no change whatever in his dress but to buy some stockings from a hawker.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)