stocked, a. and ppl. a.
(stɒkt)
[f. stock n.1 and v.1 + -ed.]
† 1. Set in the stocks, imprisoned. Obs.
| c 1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 27 Oure lord ihesu criste, the whiche losith stokkid men. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 476/2 Stokkyd, yn stokkys, cip(p)atus. |
2. Of a female animal: Impregnated, breeding.
| 1478 Acta Audit. (1839) 74/2, xij stokit meris and a stag of a ȝere auld. 1490 Acta Dom. Concil. (1839) 146/2 A stokkit mere and hir foloware price iiij li. |
3. Of a fire-arm, a tool: Furnished with a stock.
| 1497 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 290 Serpentynes..stokked cxvj, vnstokked xxv. 1594 in Highland Papers (S.H.S. 1914) I. 183 He schot him with my reid stocket hagbit. 1635 Relat. Maryland vii. 45 Item, 2 Piercers stocked. 1648 Bury Wills (Camden) 217 My little black stocked peece inlayed with silver, and my case of redd stocked pistolls. |
† 4. Of hose. Cf. stock v.1 3 b.
| 1598 E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 48 The long stockt hose, or close Venetian. |
5. Of a tree: ? Rooted up or felled.
| a 1595 Southwell St. Peter's Compl. (1602) 72 Like stocked tree whose branches all doe fade. |
6. Furnished with a stock or store. Also with adv., as well-stocked.
| a 1796 Burns ‘Thou's welcome, wean’ vi, Twill please me mair to hear an' see 't, Than stocket mailens. 1829 F. Glasse Belgic Past. iii. 46 Had your sires toil'd a century, or more, With a stock'd farm, they had not heap'd the store Which Strephon claims. 1859 Reeve Brittany 228 We were led..through a large and well-stocked garden. 1897 Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xv. 169 She could get up enthusiasm for a stocked hamper. 1909 Edin. Rev. Oct. 319 A barely stocked purse. |
7. Of cards: Fraudulently arranged or dealt.
| 1894 J. N. Maskelyne Sharps & Flats vi. 147 He is enabled to know when the stocked cards are being given off and who has them. |