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• The Stocks

  See Stocks Market. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• stocks

  A frame of blocks and shores whereon to build shipping. It has a gradual declivity towards the water...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Stocks

  (An instrument of punishment, consisting of two beams, the upper one being movable, with two small o...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Granger stocks

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Granger shares. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Stocks Market

  The City market so called occupied a large tract of ground at the junction of Coruhill, Threadneedle...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• shoemaker's stocks

  New, or strait shoes. I was in the shoemaker's stocks; i.e. had on a new pair of shoes that were too...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stocks-man

  n. an unusual form for Stock-man (q.v.). 1862. F. J. Jobson, `Australia,' c. vi. p. 145: «We saw ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fancy stocks

  A species of stocks which are bought and sold to a great extent in New York. Unlike articles of merc...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• stock's-bill

  geranium Robertianum. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• (St.) Christopher le Stocks

  On the north side of Threadneedle Street, west of the Bank of England. In Bread Street Ward. Shown ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Little Conduit by the Stocks Market

  Erected about 1500 (S. 18). In Walbrook Ward. Removed after the Fire 1666 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. i. 2...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.