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A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.

Covering for the feet and lower part of the legs; a stocking or stockings.

One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.

A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

ries of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.

as of bones. Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting , a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in knittin…

e. A shirt with laced ruffles. Fielding. Laced mutton, a prostitute. [Old slang] -- Laced stocking, a strong stocking which can be tightly laced; -- used in cases of weak legs, varicose veins, etc. Dunglison.

ond his last. L'Estrange. Darning last, a smooth, hard body, often egg-shaped, put into a stocking to preserve its shape in darning.

The part of any article of clothing which covers the leg; as, the leg of a stocking or of a pair of trousers.

Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.

, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.

The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.

ent for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.

ram piles, cartridges, etc. [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. Shak.

To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.

fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.

s of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.