Definition of stocking

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Stocking (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven..

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Shoddy :: Shoddy (v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling, or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo..
Welt :: Welt (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed..
Stocking :: Stockinet (n.) An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made..
Hosiery :: Hosiery (n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose..
Stock :: Stock (n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings)..
Footglove :: Footglove (n.) A kind of stocking.
Barefoot :: Barefoot (a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
Ravel :: Ravel (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking..
Varicose :: Varicose (a.) Intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like..
Linen :: Linen (n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking..
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..
Stock :: Stocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stoc.
Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
Foot :: Foot (n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of 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..
Stockinger :: Stocking (v. t.) To dress in GBs.
Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
Bluestocking :: Bluestocking (n.) The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.
Hogger :: Hogger (n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work..
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