Word Meanings - STOCKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

of Stock

• Stockjobber
  One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
• Stockjobbing
  The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
• Stock-still
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still.
• Stockaded
  of Stockade
• Stockwork
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• Stockading
  of Stockade
• Stock-blind
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• STOCKBLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• Stockbroker
  A broker who deals in stocks.
• STOCKSTILL
  Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
• Stockdove
  A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees.

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