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  • STOCKER
    One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
  • STOCKWORK
    A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
  • STOCK-BLIND
    Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
  • MERCHANDISER
    A trader. Bunyan.
  • STOCKADE
    A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata
  • STOCKY
    1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
  • STOCK-STILL
    Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
  • WARES
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  • STOCKJOBBER
    One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
  • GOODSHIP
    Favor; grace. Gower.
  • STOCKINET
    An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
  • GOODS
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  • STOCKISH
    Like a stock; stupid; blockish. Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak.
  • MERCHANDISE
    1. The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. Spenser. 2. The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
  • STOCKFISH
    Young fresh cod. (more info) 1. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
  • STOCKHOLDER
    One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
  • STOCKJOBBING
    The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
  • STOCKINGER
    A stocking weaver.
  • STOCKDOVE
    A common European wild pigeon , so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees. Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species,
  • STOCKING
    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. (more info) covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
  • BEETLESTOCK
    The handle of a beetle.
  • BLUESTOCKINGISM
    The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
  • UNDERSTOCK
    To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.
  • DRY GOODS
    A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
  • DIESTOCK
    A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
  • MOCKINGSTOCK
    A butt of sport; an object of derision.
  • TREASURY STOCK
    Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.
  • ROOTSTOCK
    A perennial underground stem, producing leafly s
  • GAZINGSTOCK
    A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.
  • PENSTOCK
    1. A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses. 2. The barrel of a wooden pump.

 

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