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Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | | Copyright

STOCK. Available for exploitation in acting, speaking, and writing, especially as part of a stock-in-trade of topics, arguments, plots, jokes, expressions, etc. ‘If Agatha Christie works almost entirely with what the critics call “stock responses”, she knows how to take advantage of our responding in a stock way to stock situations’ (The Times, 20 Sept. 1975). Compare CLICHÉ.
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A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

stock The juice obtained by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables, used to prepare soups, stews, and gravy. Meat and bone contain collagen, which is converted into gelatine by prolonged boiling; hence, the stock may set to a jelly on cooling. The main nutritional value of stock is the mineral content.
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

stock, the horizontal crosspiece of an Admiralty pattern, or fisherman's, anchor, set right angles to the arms of the anchor so that when hitting the sea bottom it will turn the anchor to bring the arms vertical, enabling the anchor flukes to bite into the ground. For illus.

see anchor.
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

stock n.
1. the part of a rifle or other firearm to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached, held against one's shoulder when firing the gun.

2. the crosspiece of an anchor.

3. (stocks) a frame used to support a ship or boat out of water, especially when under construction.
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A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Stock Essex. Herewardestoc 1234, Stocke 1337. ‘Outlying farmstead or hamlet of a man called Hereweard’. OE pers. name + stoc. The longer name remained in use until the 17th cent.
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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

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1. An igneous intrusion that has steep contacts with the surrounding country rocks. It is approximately circular in plan and has an area of 20 km2 or less.

2. See graft.
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Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Stock

cattle, horses, or sheep that are bred for use or profit, collectively ; a swarm of bees.

Examples : stock of bees, 1675; of Quakers, 1674.
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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

stock Igneous intrusion, approximately circular in plan, that has steep contacts with the country rocks and a surface area of 20 km2 or less.
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World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

stock See shares
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

stock •ad hoc, amok, Bangkok, baroque, belle époque, bloc, block, bock, brock, chock, chock-a-block, clock, cock, crock, doc, dock, floc, flock, frock, hock, hough, interlock, jock, knock, langue d'oc, lock, Locke, Médoc, mock, nock, o'clock, pock, post hoc, roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, Spock, stock, wok, yapok •manioc • Antioch • sjambok •gemsbok • rhebok • steenbok •springbok • grysbok • Lombok •Zadok • Languedoc •burdock, Murdoch •hollyhock • forehock • spatchcock •blackcock • Hancock • petcock •haycock • gamecock •Leacock, peacock, seacock •Hickok • Hitchcock • poppycock •stopcock • gorcock •Alcock, ballcock •monocoque • woodcock • shuttlecock •moorcock • weathercock

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