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stocking noun2 & verb. L16.
[from STOCK noun1, verb1: see -ING1.]
A. noun.
A close-fitting knitted or woven garment covering the foot and part or all of the leg. Now chiefly spec., a woman's usu. semi-transparent or diaphanous leg-covering (esp. of silk or nylon) reaching to the thigh; (esp. US) a sock. L16.
Harper's Magazine He stands over seven feet in his stockings. Daily Telegraph A..Kiss-a-Gram girl..in a see-through bra, black knickers and fishnet stockings.
b. A Christmas stocking. M19.
c. A stocking used for storing money; a store of money. L19.
A garment or surgical appliance resembling a stocking; a cylindrical bandage for the leg, esp. (in full elastic stocking) a covering of elastic webbing worn as a remedial support, esp. for a leg affected with varicose veins. L17.
A part (esp. the lower part) of an animal's leg coloured differently from the rest of the leg and the body; esp. a white portion on a horse's leg, extending up to the knee or hock. E19.
Phrases etc.: body-stocking: see BODY noun. Christmas stocking: see CHRISTMAS noun. shoes and stockings: see SHOE noun. silk stocking: see SILK noun & adjective.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses 'knitted using stocking-stitch, made of stockinet', as stocking cloth, stocking material, stocking-web, etc. Special combs., as stocking cap a knitted woollen hat with a long tapered end which hangs down; stocking filler a small gift suitable for putting in a Christmas stocking; stocking-foot the part of a stocking which covers the foot, esp. as a place for storing money (in one's stocking feet, wearing only stockings or socks on one's feet, without shoes, esp. when being measured); stocking-frame Hist. an early form of knitting-machine; stocking mask a nylon stocking pulled over the face to disguise the features, used esp. by criminals; stocking-masked adjective wearing a stocking mask; stocking-net plain knitting done orig. on a stocking-frame (cf. STOCKINET); stocking-stitch Knitting a stitch of alternate rows of plain and purl, making an even pattern; stocking stuffer N. Amer. = stocking filler above; stocking tights = TIGHT noun 1b; stocking-weaver Hist.: using a stocking-frame; stocking-yarn thread used in making hosiery.
b. verb trans. Provide with stockings. M18.
stockinged adjective (a) wearing a stocking or stockings; (b) (of the foot) having a stocking or sock but no shoe on (
in one's stockinged feet = in one's stocking feet above): E17.
stockinger noun (Hist.) a stocking-weaver M18.
stockingless adjective M18.