stock-keep

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• Keep

  ·vt To have habitually in stock for sale. II. Keep ·noun That which is kept in charge; a charge. I...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to keep

  To inhabit. Lord, where do you keep? i.e. where are your rooms? ACADEMICAL PHRASE. Mother, your tit ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• keep

  Food; subsistence; keeping. In a letter to his brother, Bishop Heber, speaking of Bishops' College c...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep

  to catch. Lane. ...

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

• keep

  A strong donjon or tower in the middle of a castle, usually the last resort of its garrison in a sie...

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• Stock

  ·vt To put in the stocks. II. Stock ·noun The beater of a fulling mill. III. Stock ·noun A race or...

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• stock

  A good stock; i.e. of impudence. Stock and block; the whole: he has lost stock and block. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stock

  n. The word has many meanings. In theone from which the Australian compounds are made, it denotesho...

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

• stock

  Cattle in general; the cattle belonging to a farm. Provincial in the North of England.--Pegge's Glos...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• stock

  cattle in general. ...

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

• hut-keep

  v. to act as hut-keeper. 1865. S. Sidney, `Three Colonies of Australia,' p. 380 «At this, as well...

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

• to keep company

  To court. A common term in the interior parts of New England, applied to a man whose visits to a lad...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep off

  To fall to a distance from the shore, or a ship, &c. (See offing.) ...

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• Debenture stock

  ·add. ·- The debt or series of debts, collectively, represented by a series of debentures; a debt se...

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• Mahon stock

  ·- An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is call...

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• Stock-blind

  ·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind. ...

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• Stock-still

  ·adj Still as a stock, or fixed post; perfectly still. ...

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• Tool-stock

  ·noun The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped. ...

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• Treasury stock

  ·add. ·- Issued stock of an incorporated company held by the company itself. ...

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• Trustee stock

  ·add. ·- High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. ...

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• Stock Exchange

  Between Throgmorton Street north and Threadneedle Street south, at No.23 Throgmorton Street (P.O. Di...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• live stock

  Lice or fleas. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stock drawers

  Stockings. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stock jobbers

  Persons who gamble in Exchange Alley, by pretending to buy and sell the public funds, but in reality...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• stock-agent

  n. more usually in the form Stockand Station-agent. The circumstances of Australian life makethis a...

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

• stock-holder

  n. a grazier; owner of largeherds of cattle, or flocks of sheep. 1820. Lieut. Chas. Jeffreys, `Del...

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

• stock-horse

  n. horse accustomed to go aftercattle used in mustering and cutting-out (q.v.). 1874. W. H. L. Ran...

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

• stock-hut

  n. the hut of a stock-man. 1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. ii. c. ii. p. 21: «We cross...

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

• stock-keeper

  n. equivalent to a shepherd,or herdsman. 1821. Governor Macquarie, `Government Notice,' June 30, 1...

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

• stock-man

  n. used in Australia for a manemployed to look after stock. 1821. Governor Macquarie, `Government ...

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

• stock-rider

  n. a man employed to look aftercattle, properly on an unfenced station. 1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush ...

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

• stock-riding

  n. the occupationof a Stock-rider (q.v.). 1880. Fison and Howitt, `Kamilaroi and Kurnai,' p. 260[F...

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

• stock-route

  n. When land is first let insurveyed blocks to a Squatter (q.v.), and is, of course,unfenced, the l...

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

• stock-up

  v. complete the number of animalson a station, so that it may carry its full complement. 1890. Rol...

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

• stock-whip

  n. whip for driving cattle.See quotations. 1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 100: «The s...

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

• anchor-stock

  A bar at the upper end of the shank, crossing the direction of the flukes transversely, to steady th...

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• rudder-stock

  The main piece of a rudder. ...

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• stock-fish

  Ling and haddock when sun-dried, without salt, were called stock-fish, and used in the navy, but are...

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• to keep it up

  To prolong a debauch. We kept it up finely last night; metaphor drawn from the game of shuttle- cock...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to keep it up

  To prolong a debauch. 'He kept it up finely last night;' a metaphor drawn from a game of shuttlecock...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep her own

  Not to fall off; not driven back by tide. ...

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• keep your luff

  An order to the helmsman to keep the ship close to the wind, i.e. sailing with a course as near as p...

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• anchor-stock-fashion

  The method of placing the butt of one wale-plank nearly over the middle of the other; and the planks...

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• anchor-stock tackle

  A small tackle attached to the upper part of the anchor-stock when stowing the anchor, its object be...

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• stock and fluke

  The whole of anything. ...

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• keep the land aboard

  Is to sail along it, or within sight, as much as possible, or as close as danger will permit. ...

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• London Joint Stock Bank

  1) On the west side of Princes Street at No. 5 (Head Office) (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street Ward....

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• lock, stock, and barrel

  The whole. A figurative expression borrowed from sportsmen, and having reference to a gun. Look at ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lock, stock, and barrel

  An expression derived from fire-arms, and meaning the whole. ...

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• stock of an anchor

  A cross-beam of wood, or bar of iron, secured to the upper end of the shank at right angles with the...

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• to keep a stiff upper lip

  is to continue firm, unmoved. My friend, said he, don't cry for spilt milk; keep a stiff upper lip;...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• keep the pot a boiling

  i. e. Don't let the game flag. A common expression among young people, when they are anxious to carr...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• lay in sea-stock, to

  To make provision for the voyage. ...

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• keep a good hold of the land

  Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done. ...

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