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The handle of a beetle.

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.

A literary lady; a female pedant. [Colloq.]

The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]

See Counterfoil.

olders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the case of railway debentures, they cannot demand payment…

A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight.

One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers. Godwin.

A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall.

Stocks or shares of the granger railroads.

The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.

tachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.

; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.

shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon. [Written also lintstock.]

th reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.

A butt of sport; an object of derision. [R.]

Stock in excess. Tatler.

A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.