Definition of stock

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Stock (n.) The wood to which the barrel, lock, etc., of a musket or like firearm are secured; also, a long, rectangular piece of wood, which is an important part of several forms of gun carriage..

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Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Plenishing :: Plenishing (n.) Household furniture; stock.
Narrowing :: Narrowing (n.) The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
Penstock :: Penstock (n.) The barrel of a wooden pump.
Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock..
Hoard :: Hoard (n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money..
Unload :: Unload (v. t.) To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of..
Assessment :: Assessment (n.) An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a call)..
Frame :: Frame (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc..
Call :: Call (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on..
Crossbar :: Crossbar (n.) A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down..
Bedstock :: Bedstock (n.) The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead.
Stockfish :: Stocker (n.) One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc..
Basbleu :: Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.
Day Lily :: Day lily () A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers..
Gens :: Gens (a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe..
Peculium :: Peculium (n.) The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Listing :: Listing (n.) The act or process of one who lists (in any sense of the verb); as, the listing of a door; the listing of a stock at the Stock Exchange..
Operator :: Operator (n.) A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
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