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say it: STAH-king
stocking is a noun meaning "close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
plural
the activity of supplying a stock of something
“he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stocking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.