stocking

IPA: stˈɑkɪŋ

A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
A large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
(forestry) A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.
A surname.

Examples of "stocking" in Sentences

But he kicked them off and danced all night in stocking-feet.
It's going to be as long as I am tall, and I'm 5 foot 10 inches in stocking feet.
Around here, we don't have any natural trout reproduction, so stocking is what we get.
While JB persists in stocking tentacle pr0n, we are NEVER going to get the boys out of Chez Birmo.
So, I am happy if CNN wants to report something positive about the President, BUT I do have to find myself asking why the dog's stocking is newsworthy.
I think this was merely a case of an extreme mistake in stocking, which the press turned into a sensationalized "Society is sexualizing our youngsters!" story.
He added that House of Fraser had been approached by a US department store interested in stocking Biba but had not decided whether to pursue wholesale distribution.
_To Run a stocking_: To pass a thread of yarn, with a needle, straight along each row of the stocking, as far as is desired, taking up one loop and missing two or three, until tie row is completed, so as to double the thickness at the part which is run.