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

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

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

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

Footing :: Footing (n.) The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Unravel :: Unravel (v. t.) To disentangle; to disengage or separate the threads of; as, to unravel a stocking..

Bluestockingism :: Bluestockingism (n.) The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.

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

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..

Hosier :: Hosier (n.) One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose..

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

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

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

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..

Welt :: Welt (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed..

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

Hogger :: Hogger (n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work..

Stock :: Stocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoc.

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