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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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Examples for "stockings"
Examples for "stockings"
1
Therefore the factories making stockings employ more help, and no unemployment results.
The Tyranny Of Words
2
You wouldn't believe how many stockings and hairpins I've lost that way!
The frog princess
3
In the evening came in by sale of stockings and articles 2l.
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. P...
4
Ozma wore few holes in her stockings; still, they sometimes needed mending.
The Emerald City of Oz
5
With nervous fingers the woman hung the three stockings near the window.
And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy
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...
5
And he noticed that the other stocking was in the same condition.
Stubble
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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
8
Farm cover is more or less on target for my stocking rate.
Independent.ie
9
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
11
Usually we devote all of Sunday to stocking up for the week.
The Hunger Games
12
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
14
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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Stocking through the time
Stocking across language varieties
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