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A store or supply.

(operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.

Railroad rolling stock.

(card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.

Farm or ranch animals; livestock.

The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.

(finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.

(especially US) A share in a company.

(figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.

Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.

The raw material from which things are made, such as feedstock.

(broth as base for further food prep) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.

The type of paper used in printing.

Film stock.

Plain soap before it is colored and perfumed.

Stock theater, summer stock theater.

The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.

(horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.

(by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.

(linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.

(plant of genus _Matthiola_) Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus (genus).

(handle or stem of tool or weapon) A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.

(shoulder rest for firearm) (firearm) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.

(handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc) The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.

(a major part of a machine) Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

(headstock of a machine) The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.

(tailstock of a machine) The tailstock of a lathe.

A bar, stick{{,}} or rod.

A ski pole.

(nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.

(nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.

(geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)

A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.

A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.

A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.

A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

(folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

(obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.

A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

(dullard) (obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

(historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.

(in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

(in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

(biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

The beater of a fulling mill.

To have on hand for sale.

To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

To put in the stocks as punishment.

(nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

(dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

(of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.

Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.