netherstock

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noun

A stocking.

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Meanings

nounnetherstock (plural netherstocks)

plural netherstocks

  1. A stocking.
  2. historicalA 16th-century stocking reaching above the knee and worn with upperstocks.

    when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks

    c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]

Origin

From nether- + stock.

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