stock

English

/stɒk/, /stɑk/

noun
Definitions
  • A store or supply.
  • (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
  • The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
  • stock Stock theater, summer stock theater.
  • The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
  • Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
  • A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
  • Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
  • A bar, stick or rod.
  • A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.
  • A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
  • (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
  • (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
  • A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
  • (by extension) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
  • (UK) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
  • (shipbuilding) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
  • (UK) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
  • (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
  • The beater of a fulling mill.

Etymology

Inherited from Old English stocc (stock, stump) inherited from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (tree-trunk, stump, stock).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*stukkaz

Gloss

tree-trunk, stump, stock

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