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

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

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

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.

Clock :: Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking..

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

Foot :: Foot (v. t.) To renew the foot of, as of stocking..

Hosiery :: Hosiery (n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose..

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.

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

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Narrowing :: Narrowing (n.) The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

Varicose :: Varicose (a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like..

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..

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..

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

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

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