stocking machine (stoking mas hen")

A stocking-frame or knitting-machine. stocking-maker (stok'ing-maker), n. A bottle-tit, Acredula caudata, or A. rose a: translating a French name, déba aire, referring to the long woven nest, likened to a stocking. C. Swains on. views are reflected in the quotations.] Certain stocking-yarn (stok'ing-yärn), n. Loosely gadoid fish which are cured by splitting and spun thread, made especially for stockings. drying hard without sal as colake, IMG:content-2166.png:[blocks in formation] stock-jobber (stok'job"ér), n. One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose ocсира more than Erasmus hath written in his colloquis. tion is the purchase and sale of stocks or shares. There is a kind of fishe which is called English Stock fish : it nourish eth no more than a stock." Stockfish whilst it is unbeaten is called Buckhorne, because it is so tough; when it is beaten upon the stock, it is termed stock fish . Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 155, note. stock-fish2 (stok'fish), n. fish1 .] In fish - culture , fish adapted or used for stocking rivers, ponds, lakes, etc. [ stock1 , n., 22, +