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Stocking :: Stocking (n.) A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven..

Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one..

Ravel :: Ravel (v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking..

Flipe :: Flipe (v. t.) To turn inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on..

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Unstockinged :: Unstockinged (a.) Destitute of stockings.

Pantaloon :: Pantaloon (n.) A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one..

Foot :: Foot (n.) That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking..

Boothose :: Boothose (n.) Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots..

Hogger :: Hogger (n.) A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work..

Barefoot :: Barefoot (a. & adv.) With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

Hosiery :: Hosiery (n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose..

Pair :: Pair (n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes..

Welt :: Welt (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed..

Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings..

Shoddy :: Shoddy (v. t.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling, or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo..

Footing :: Footing (n.) The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

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