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The Meaning of stock
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(n.) The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
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(n.) The stem or branch in which a graft is inserted.
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(n.) A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
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(n.) Hence, a person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
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(n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached.
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(n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage.
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(n.) The handle or contrivance by which bits are held in boring; a bitstock; a brace.
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(n.) The block of wood or metal frame which constitutes the body of a plane, and in which the plane iron is fitted; a plane stock.
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(n.) The wooden or iron crosspiece to which the shank of an anchor is attached. See Illust. of Anchor.
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(n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself.
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(n.) A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.
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(n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil.
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(n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family.
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(n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former shares.
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(n.) Same as Stock account, below.
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(n.) Supply provided; store; accumulation; especially, a merchant's or manufacturer's store of goods; as, to lay in a stock of provisions.
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(n.) Domestic animals or beasts collectively, used or raised on a farm; as, a stock of cattle or of sheep, etc.; -- called also live stock.
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(n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
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(n.) A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
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(n.) A covering for the leg, or leg and foot; as, upper stocks (breeches); nether stocks (stockings).
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(n.) A kind of stiff, wide band or cravat for the neck; as, a silk stock.
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(n.) A frame of timber, with holes in which the feet, or the feet and hands, of criminals were formerly confined by way of punishment.
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(n.) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests while building.
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(n.) Red and gray bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
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(n.) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Matthiola; as, common stock (Matthiola incana) (see Gilly-flower); ten-weeks stock (M. annua).
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(n.) An irregular metalliferous mass filling a large cavity in a rock formation, as a stock of lead ore deposited in limestone.
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(n.) A race or variety in a species.
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(n.) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of persons (see Person), as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
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(n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
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(n.) A liquid or jelly containing the juices and soluble parts of meat, and certain vegetables, etc., extracted by cooking; -- used in making soup, gravy, etc.
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(v. t.) To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as merchandise, and the like.
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(v. t.) To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a permanent growth, especially of grass.
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(v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows.
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(v. t.) To put in the stocks.
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(a.) Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.
Synonyms
inventory
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gunstock
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stock certificate
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store
,
fund
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lineage
,
line
,
line of descent
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descent
,
bloodline
,
blood line
,
blood
,
pedigree
,
ancestry
,
origin
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parentage
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stemma
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breed
,
strain
,
broth
,
caudex
,
gillyflower
,
Malcolm stock
,
neckcloth
,
livestock
,
farm animal
,
carry
,
stockpile
,
buy in
,
stock up
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sprout
,
banal
,
commonplace
,
hackneyed
,
old-hat
,
shopworn
,
threadbare
,
timeworn
,
tired
,
trite
,
well-worn
,
standard
Homophones
staack
,
stocke
,
stokke
Rhymes
ad-hoc
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adcock
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aftershock
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airlock
,
alcock
,
antiknock
,
antilock
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antioch
,
baack
,
bach
,
balk
,
ballcock
,
bangkok
,
barach
,
baulk
,
bedrock
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bloc
,
bloch
,
block
,
blok
,
boardwalk
,
boch
,
bock
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bohlke
,
bok
,
broc
,
brock
,
calk
,
catwalk
,
caulk
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chalk
,
chock
,
chok
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clock
,
cloque
,
cock
,
comstock
,
cornstalk
,
croc
,
crock
,
crosstalk
,
crosswalk
,
deadlock
,
doc
,
dock
,
eisenach
,
elcock
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electroshock
,
erlach
,
estok
,
falk
,
falke
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faulk
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feedstock
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flintlock
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floc
,
flock
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frock
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fyock
,
gamecock
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gawk
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glock
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gocke
,
gohlke
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goshawk
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gridlock
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groch
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haack
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haacke
,
haak
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hammerlock
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hamrock
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hancock
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hassebrock
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hauck
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hauk
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hauke
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havelock
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hawk
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hawke
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haycock
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hemlock
,
hitchcock
,
hoc
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hoch
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hock
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hollyhock
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interlock
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iraq
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jacques
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jaywalk
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jock
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kilmarnock
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kloc
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klock
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klocke
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knaack
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knaak
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knock
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kock
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kok
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kroc
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krock
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krok
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kwok
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laack
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laake
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landlock
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lauck
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laughingstock
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laycock
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leacock
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livestock
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loch
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lock
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locke
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maack
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mach
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madlock
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manioc
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maroc
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matchlock
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mauck
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mauk
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maycock
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moch
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mock
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mohawk
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mok
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nighthawk
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nock
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norwalk
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oarlock
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och
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overstock
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padlock
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pathak
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peacock
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ploch
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plock
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poch
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pock
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poppycock
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reichenbach
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restock
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roadblock
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roc
,
roch
,
rock
,
rocke
,
rocque
,
salk
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sauk
,
schaack
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schalk
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schlock
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schoch
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shaak
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shamrock
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shedlock
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sherlock
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shock
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shrock
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shylock
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sidewalk
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skok
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skroch
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sleepwalk
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smock
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sock
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sok
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spock
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spurlock
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squawk
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staack
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stalk
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stocke
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stokke
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strock
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talk
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tock
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tomahawk
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toque
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undock
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unlock
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vlok
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vocke
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waack
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walk
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walke
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warloeck
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wedlock
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woodcock
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woodstock
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yeosock
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zoch
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zwack