ˈnetherstock Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 6–7 neather-, 6 neither-.
[f. nether a. + stock.]
A stocking.
| 1565–6 Roy. Proclam. Apparel 12 Feb., Any maner of sylke neatherstockes of Hosen. 1592 Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 220 A plaine pair of cloth-breeches..of white kersie.., the nether-stocke of the same. 1607–8 Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) II. 2 My best over hoose and my best netherstockes. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 436 Neither did they commonly wear breeches without netherstocks or slops. |
| 1821 Scott Kenilw. xix, A dispute upon the preference due to the Spanish nether-stock over the black Gascoigne hose. 1863 Sala Captain Dangerous I. vi. 170 A plain black shag gown untrimmed, with camlet netherstocks. |
| transf. 1605 Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 11 When a man [is] ouer⁓lustie at legs, then he weares wodden nether-stocks. |
So
† nether-stocking.
Obs. rare—1.
| 1591 Florio 2nd Fruites 7 Foure payre of breeches, fiue of nether-stockins. |