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Meanings of stocking in English

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Hosiery that covers the feet and legs to the knee or higher.

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        Usage of stocking in English
        1
        At the heart of that problem was the stocking rate, he said.
        Radio NZ
        2
        In the late 1980s, schools started stocking fast food and vending machines.
        The new yorker
        3
        It began stocking its library with original films just three years ago.
        Reuters
        4
        And then the toil and self-denial for the stocking and the tree
        The Golden Censer / Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the f...
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        And he noticed that the other stocking was in the same condition.
        Stubble
        6
        The round coins in the miser's stocking were safe in some sense.
        A Miscellany of Men
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        She stared at the remains of a cheap stocking in her lap.
        Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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        Farm cover is more or less on target for my stocking rate.
        Independent.ie
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        The mother looked at Dorian coming so noiselessly in his stocking feet.
        Dorian
        10
        No doubt there'll be a few stocking-up to counter the inevitable demand…
        The South African
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        Usually we devote all of Sunday to stocking up for the week.
        The Hunger Games
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        Dad had been stocking up since the first days of the Panic.
        World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
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        Managers reported people were stocking up on sachets and frozen meat bricks.
        The Naked God
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        Pa Norton was sitting in his stocking feet, reading the evening paper.
        Lydia of the Pines
        15
        The straw, the universal stocking of these women-diggers, is reeking with dirt.
        In and out of Three Normandy Inns
        16
        House of Fraser is now stocking Helen McAlinden's bed linen for .
        The Irish Times
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