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stocking
has definitions from the field of clothing
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[ noun ] (clothing) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)`` I 've never done this before '' , they always said , putting_on their stockings . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)`` If I catch you one more time down here without stockings '' - (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)It was enough for people to know that at_one_time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed - watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance , as thin as the seams on her stockings , and still thinner . |
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[ noun ] the activity of supplying a stock of something
Examples "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout" Used in print (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)Fishing interest calls_for a check of the species found , quantity and size , the season they are available , and the stocking program of the fish commission . |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 15651
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[ adjective ] wearing stockings
Synonyms Examples "walks about in his stockinged (or stocking) feet" Related terms |
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