stocker

plural stockers

1. agricultureLivestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.

   Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?

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   When sheep are shipped as stockers from the ranges, the numbers are such usually as to admit of grading the animals before they are shipped.

   1914, Thomas Shaw, Management and Feeding of Sheep, Orange Judd Co., page 361

   The production of stockers and feeders should be confined to those parts of the country where the larger part of the land cannot be plowed profitably, and grass is the principal crop.

   1918, Frank Duane Gardner, Live Stock and Dairy Farming, The John C. Winston Company, page 53

   All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers, whether they go to grass or to the feedlot.

   1988, Beef: Stocker Cattle, Clemson University, page 1

2. automotiveA racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing.

   Any small-block Chevy engine, whether it be a stocker, street rod, or racer, will benefit from proper balancing.

   2002, Jim Richardson, How to Build a Small-Block Chevy for the Street →ISBN, page 58

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   For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.

   1968, Car Life, page 75

   Ford Motor Company’s response to the Charger 500 was the 1969 Talladega and Cyclone Spoiler II, sleek, slippery stockers that forced Dodge designers back to the drawing board.

   1993, Mike Mueller, Chrysler Muscle Cars, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 86

3. One who crafts gun stocks.

   We mean by this that a man who has become great as a stocker would not necessarily know anything about barrel-boring, anything about actioning, anything about lock-making, nor anything about shooting.

   1900, George Teasdale, Experts on Guns and Shooting, Sampson Low, Marston & co., page 307

4. One who stocks shelves with inventory.

   I worked for two winters at Kmart in Arizona as a stocker and security guard. I was a stocker for Payless Drugs for two winters in West Seattle.

   2003, Dominick Budnick, My Life as a Miracle: A Life of Fighting Cancer, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN

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   There were plenty of jobs at Star Crest that someone with a mental deficiency could handle and Davenport sought to get Alvin employed as a stocker.

   2003, Donna Goodenough, Deadly Thirst, →ISBN, page 80

5. One who supplies raw material to a machine.

   _ has been working as a stocker at a rolling mill (a stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters).

   1930, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, The Negro in American Civilization, H. Holt and Company, page 87

plural Stockers

1. A surname.