stockinged, ppl. a.
(ˈstɒkɪŋd)
[f. stocking n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Furnished with stockings or with a stocking.
| 1608 Dekker Work for Armourers (1609) F 1 b, The kerzy stockingd Whoresons. 1693 Dryden Juvenal iii. 397 Stockin'd with loads of fat Town-Dirt he goes. 1887 Stevenson Manse in Scribner's Mag. I. 613/1 Nothing of this would cross the mind of the young student, as he posted up the Bridges with trim, stockinged legs. |
| transf. 1894 Sala Lond. up to Date 349 Those three slender quadrupeds, all stockinged and hooded..which are being carefully conducted to a horse-box. |
2. Of the foot: Covered with a stocking only.
| 1862 Cornhill Mag. May 570 She had taken her shoes off, and came in her stockinged feet up to my bedside. 1891 Hardy Tess xxxvii, He slid back the door-bar and passed out, slightly striking his stockinged toe against the edge of the door. |
3. Of a bird: Feathered on the shank.
| 1855 Poultry Chron. III. 153 The Stomacher Pigeons..are ‘stockinged’, or feathered to the toes with small feathers. |