noun. A close-fitting, usually knitted covering for the foot and leg made from nylon, silk, cotton, wool, and similar yarns.

noun. An item resembling this covering.

noun. A close-fitting covering for the foot and lower leg.

noun. Something like or suggesting such a covering.

To dress in stockings; cover as with stockings.

noun. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.

noun. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking{1}

noun. A broad ring of color, differing from the general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse.

noun. A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.

noun. See Bluestocking.

noun. a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.

transitive verb. To dress in GBs.

noun. A soft garment worn on the foot and lower leg, usually knit or woven, worn under shoes or other footwear.

verb. Present participle of stock.

noun. the activity of supplying a stock of something

noun. close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)

"_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."