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We have a stock of televisions on hand.

Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.

When the bad news came out, the company's stock dropped precipitously.

After that last screw-up of mine, my stock is pretty low around here.

The books were printed on a heavier stock this year.

The cion overruleth the stock quite.

UUhat, ſhall I call thee brother? No, a foe,

Monſter of Nature, ſhame vnto thy ſtocke,

That darſt preſume thy Soueraigne for to mocke.

The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.

He wore a brown tweed suit and a white stock. His clothes hung loosely about him as though they had been made for a much larger man. He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.

When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones,

Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks.

[…]a somewhat rude machine called the stocks, and consisting of a pair of wooden mallets, worked alternately by a cog wheel.