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Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Seam :: Seam (v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting..

Barefoot :: Barefoot (a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings..

Footglove :: Footglove (n.) A kind of stocking.

Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one..

Boothose :: Boothose (n.) Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots..

Stockinger :: Stocking (v. t.) To dress in GBs.

Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Destitute of stockings.

Stockish :: Stockinger (n.) A stocking weaver.

Pair :: Pair (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes..

Frame :: Frame (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc..

Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Deprived of stockings.

Hypothec :: Hypothec (n.) A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent..

Garter :: Garter (n.) A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

Widen :: Widen (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking..

Basbleu :: Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.

Shoddy :: Shoddy (v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling, or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo..

Stocking :: Stockinet (n.) An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made..

Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) A literary lady; a female pedant.

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