Etymology From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
I checked in the back of the stockroom and found some more stock.
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A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
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Railroad rolling stock.
The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.
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Card games, GamesIn a card game A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
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Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.
[…] the open land is generally covered by a grass which grows in tussacs, and produces tufts of hard, crisp, pointed blades. Stock will never willingly eat this grass; […]1881, William Rowntrie Robertson, Reports on the Agricultural Conditions, Capabilities, and Prospects Of The Neilgherry And Coimbatore Districts, page 33:
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The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
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Business, Finance The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
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Business, Finance The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.
After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.
With his stock rising fast in the party, the governor has conspicuously refrained from saying he would stand aside if Mr. Trump runs for the Republican nomination for president in 2024.2022 January 17, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, “Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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Business, Finance Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
› The raw material from which things are made…
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Cooking, Food, Lifestyle Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
They make beef stock from the butchery scraps that they otherwise might not have used.
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The type of paper used in printing.
The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of film stock.
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Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
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Stock theater, summer stock theater.
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The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground: Yet through the sent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughes like a plant.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 14:8–9:
The cion overruleth the stock quite.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
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Broadly Lineage; family; ancestry.
UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe, Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke, That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
His hatred is not based upon whom these people are (like many rightwing Republicans, Gallo comes from immigrant stock), but how easily these people have come by success in America.2003 November 14, Jacques Peretti, “You are a bad man trying to do bad things to Vincent”, in The Guardian:
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We may also conclude that as it was the Ionic γένη of the Attic tetrapolis who in the main achieved the Ionization of Athens, so it was a branch of this same stock that settled at Delos […]2010, Lewis Richard Farnell, The Cults of the Greek States, page 108:
› The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a… › Lineage; family; ancestry.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, SciencesBroadly A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
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Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:
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The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
› Part of a machine that supports items or…
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The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
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The tailstock of a lathe.
› A bar, stick, or rod.
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A ski pole.
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Nautical, Transport A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:
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Nautical, Transport The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
› A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
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A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.1915, W. Somerset Maugham, “chapter 116”, in Of Human Bondage:
His grey waistcoat sported pearl buttons, and he wore a stock which set off to admiration a lean and aquiline face which was almost as grey as the rest of him.1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 417:
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A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
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A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
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Arts, Folklore, History, Human sciences, Literature, Media, Publishing, Sciences A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XV. On the late Massacher in Piemont.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 58:
Item, for a stock of brass for the holy water, seven shillings; which, by the canon, must be of marble or metal, and in no case of brick.1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of Waltham Abbey:
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Broadly, Obsolete A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
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UK, Historical The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
UK, In plural Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
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Biology, Natural sciences In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
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The beater of a fulling mill.
[…]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.1842, Jam Bischoff, A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures:
Etymology From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
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To have on hand for sale.
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
...he would not stock any product on his shelves from any company that hired a communist or, as it was called at the time, a comsymp.2005, William Froug, How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island:
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To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
to stock a warehouse with goods
to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools
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to stock land, i.e. to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass
A rather interesting and notable convenience, however, is that of ice water bags, which are hung on to the outside of the coaches at certain stops. These can be reached by leaning out of the window rather perilously, to unhook them, and paper cups are stocked in the compartments.1951 February, K. Westcott Jones, “Some Australian Railway Byways”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:
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To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
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To put in the stocks as punishment.
Poor Tom, that[…]eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tything to tything, and stock'd, punish'd, and imprison'dc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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Nautical, Transport To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
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Card games, GamesDated To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
Etymology From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod. The senses of "supply" and "raw material" arose from a probable conflation with steck (“an item of goods, merchandise”) or the use of split tally sticks consisting of foil or counterfoil and stock to capture paid taxes, debts or exchanges. Doublet of chock.
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Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
stock items
stock sizes
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Motor racing, Racing, SportsOf a race car Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
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Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.