stocks
/ (stɒks) /
history an instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy wooden frame with holes in which the feet, hands, or head of an offender were locked
a frame in which an animal is held while receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
a frame used to support a boat while under construction
nautical a vertical post or shaft at the forward edge of a rudder, extended upwards for attachment to the steering controls
on the stocks in preparation or under construction
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How to use stocks in a sentence
But when he saw that all his neighbours were also heading to the stores for stocks, he changed his mind.
Has the Kurdish Victory at Sinjar Turned the Tide of ISIS War? | Niqash | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCommercially, stocks, advertising, publishing, the early radio industry—all that stuff was still downtown.
It reminds me of the days when people were put in stocks in the square.
Private Prisons Rule With Little Oversight on America’s Border | Caitlin Dickson | June 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTInvestors liquidating Russian stocks have pushed the main stock market index down more than 20 percent since last October.
Flex Muscle Spending Has Left Putin’s Russia in an Economic Freeze Frame | Daniel Gross | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne of the more fascinating bits of the book has to do with the proliferation of exchanges on which stocks can be traded.
And by the facility of her fornication she defiled the land, and played the harlot with stones and with stocks.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousA Hibernian, seeing an old man and woman in the stocks, said that they put him in mind of "the babes in the wood."
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousAlthough the whipping-post and stocks used to be common things in English towns, we saw them preserved only at Bottisford.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyIt was their hope to put him out of business by adding hardware to their stocks and to sell it at cost, until he gave up the ship.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandWhen it was resolved that the army should be reduced to seven thousand men, the stocks fell.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
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