stocking
a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
something resembling such a covering.
Idioms about stocking
in one's stocking feet, wearing stockings, but without shoes: Be careful of glass splinters if you walk through here in your stocking feet.
Origin of stocking
1Other words from stocking
- stockinged, adjective
- stock·ing·less, adjective
- half-stocking, noun
- o·ver·stock·ing, noun
- un·stock·inged, adjective
Words Nearby stocking
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How to use stocking in a sentence
From the 1920s through the 1960s, wearing stockings was a requirement of womanhood— veryone did it, regardless of social class.
If you love your workout gear, thank the girdles and Flexatards of the past | Danielle Friedman | February 15, 2022 | Popular-ScienceNylon was needed for military uses, so women offered up their stockings to be recycled.
Materials of the last century shaped modern life, but at a price | Carolyn Wilke | January 28, 2022 | Science NewsFor example, historical data on warehouse stocking levels and customer ordering patterns could be pivotal for a company trying to create a more efficient supply chain.
A new era for data: What’s possible with as-a-service | MIT Technology Review Insights | January 24, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewGet your friends a set of those tools and look forward to a future of fruit preserves in your holiday stocking.
Passive-aggressive gifts that are also good for the planet | Rachel Feltman | November 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceTheir solutions, only partly understood by scientists so far, involve pressurized organs, altered heart rhythms, blood storage—and the biological equivalent of support stockings.
A stocking stuffed with $324,000 in easily negotiable $20 bills weighs 132 pounds.
This candle may just be the perfect stocking stuffer or gift for a dear friend.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Taylor Swift in Your Life | Allison McNearney | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany doomsday preppers have spent their lives stocking up for an emergency of the type this contagious hemorrhagic fever presents.
Apocalypse Now: Preppers Are Gearing Up for Ebola | Nina Strochlic | October 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou'd take a stocking and cut a hole for your eyes and wear it over your head.
Nobody wants coal in their stocking, but what about their stomach?
A handkerchief, once red, with polka spots, contained a ragged flannel shirt and a stocking-heel tied with a piece of tape.
A Lost Hero | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. WardThe peasant woman went on her way meditating in what old stocking or under what mattress she should hide her two gold pieces.
Honey-Bee | Anatole FranceAnd early in the afternoon she and Violet sat with the workbag between them, each with a stocking.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner"Six, six and one-eighth in his stocking feet, to be exact," Mr. Peck corrected.
The edge of a soiled petticoat, or the glimpse of a rent stocking is singularly disenchanting.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence Hartley
British Dictionary definitions for stocking
/ (ˈstɒkɪŋ) /
one of a pair of close-fitting garments made of knitted yarn to cover the foot and part or all of the leg
something resembling this in position, function, appearance, etc
in one's stocking feet or in one's stockinged feet wearing stockings or socks but no shoes
Origin of stocking
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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