stocking

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ

From stock (“cover with material”) +‎ -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.

A pair of nylon stockings.

stocking (plural stockings)

1. A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.

   a pair of stockings

2. A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
3. A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

• Stocking may refer either to men's socks or to women's hose, but rarely to socks when worn by women. However, this usage appears somewhat variable.

• hose
• sock
• pantyhose

From stock +‎ -ing.

stocking

1. present participle of stock

   I've almost finished stocking these groceries.

stocking

1. (forestry) A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.

• stocking in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• gnostick, tockings