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Definition of Stocks
1. Noun. A frame that supports a boat while it is under construction.
2. Noun. A frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod.
3. Noun. A former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked.
Definition of Stocks
1. Noun. (plurale tantum) A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment. ¹
2. Noun. (plural of stock) ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of stock) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stocks
1. stock [v] - See also: stock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stocks
Literary usage of Stocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1908)
"... or on account of losses or any other transactions in the purchase or sale of
stocks, bonds, securities, or commodities a made by them for your account. ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Investment W 19:21-2 Ap 21 47 Mow to judge preferred stocks. \VK l.nger- quist.
... 7 My 19 47 Present position of the oil stocks К I. Kln- ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Lit Digest Present income values of railroad and industrial stocks. ... Lit Digest
53:936-7 О 14 '16 Year's changes in quotations for stocks. ..."
4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1859)
"From the East, stocks found their way to Athens, the headquarters of ancient
civilisation, aud they are named (as the Podo kakke, or Foot Nuisance) in the ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"stocks of wheat (and of flour expressed in its equivalent weight of wheat) arc
held by ... Merchants' stocks are kept in granaries at ports of importation ..."
6. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1921)
"CHAPTER VI THE SEVEN PER CENT PREFERRED stocks AND THEIR PROVISIONS The kinds of
securities which were created for these companies constitute an important ..."
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