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Word Meanings - DIESTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

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  • STOCKER
    One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
  • STOCKWORK
    A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
  • CUTTHROAT
    One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
  • STOCK-BLIND
    Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
  • CUTTY
    Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
  • STOCKADE
    A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other to form a barrier, or defensive fortification. 2. An inclosure, or pen, made with posts and stakes. (more info) with estocade; see 1st Stoccado); fr. It. steccata
  • STOCKY
    1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent. Addison. Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. Mrs. H. H. Jackson. 2. Headstrong. G. Eliot.
  • STOCK-STILL
    Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. His whole work stands stock-still. Sterne.
  • STOCKJOBBER
    One who speculates in stocks for gain; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.
  • CUTTING
    1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
  • CUTTYSTOOL
    1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
  • STOCKINET
    An elastic textile fabric imitating knitting, of which stockings, under-garments, etc., are made.
  • STOCKISH
    Like a stock; stupid; blockish. Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. Shak.
  • STOCKFISH
    Young fresh cod. (more info) 1. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted.
  • STOCKHOLDER
    One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.
  • STOCKJOBBING
    The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.
  • STOCKINGER
    A stocking weaver.
  • STOCKDOVE
    A common European wild pigeon , so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees. Note: The name is applied, also, to other related species,
  • STOCKING
    A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking. -- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods. (more info) covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
  • STOCK
    See DRYDEN (more info) stock, OHG. stoc, Icel. stokkr, Sw. stock, Dan. stok, and AS. stycce a piece; cf. Skr. tuj to urge, thrust. Cf. Stokker, Stucco, and Tuck 1. The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant;
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • BEETLESTOCK
    The handle of a beetle.
  • BLUESTOCKINGISM
    The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
  • SWARD-CUTTER
    A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
  • UNDERSTOCK
    To supply insufficiently with stock. A. Smith.
  • SCUTTLE
    both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
  • DIESTOCK
    A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.
  • MOCKINGSTOCK
    A butt of sport; an object of derision.
  • CHALKCUTTER
    A man who digs chalk.
  • TREASURY STOCK
    Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself.

 

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