stocking

Etymology 1
From. Corruption of old plural, i.e. , now singular.



Noun

 * 1) A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
 * 2) A large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
 * 3) A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
 * 4) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
 * 1) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

Usage notes

 * Stocking may refer either to men's socks or to women's hose, but rarely to socks when worn by women. However, this usage appears somewhat variable.

Translations

 * Albanian: çorape,
 * Arabic: جَوْرَب (pl: جَوَارِب)
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ойоҡ
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: панчо́ха
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: (дълъг) чора́п
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: punčocha
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ŝtrumpo
 * Estonian: sukk
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: मोज़ा
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: sukka
 * Interlingua: calcea
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, calze di nylon
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian: sztrimpa
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ស្រោមជើង
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຖົງເທົ້າຍາວ, ຖົງຕີນ
 * Latin: tībiāle
 * Latvian: zeķe
 * Lithuanian: kojinė
 * Luxembourgish: ,
 * Macedonian: чо́рап
 * Maltese: peduna
 * Maori: tōkena
 * Mongolian: урт оймс,
 * Nanai: доктон
 * Navajo: yistłé áłtʼą́ą́ʼí
 * Norman: cauche
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: چوراب
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: stocainn, osan
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чарапа
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pančucha
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai: ук, чулук
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ҷӯроб
 * Taos: mę́dianą
 * Thai: ถุงน่อง
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: jorap
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Zazaki: gêrwe

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * I've almost finished stocking these groceries.
 * I've almost finished stocking these groceries.

Noun

 * 1)  A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.