overstocking
overstocking noun: a stocking intended to be worn over another stocking. Also the present participle and gerund of overstock.
Noun
overstocking (plural overstockings)
- A stocking intended to be worn over another stocking.
- I made a hurried attempt to change my thick fur “torbassa” and overstockings for American boots, but was surprised in the very act by the drawing up of my sledge before the house of the Russian priest, where we intended to stop until we could make arrangements for a house of our own.[…]As soon as I...1870, George Kennan, “Penzhina—Telegraph Poles—Arctic Temperature—Studying Astronomy—Arrival at Anadyrsk—A Priest’s Hospitality”, in Tent Life in Siberia, and Adventures among the Koraks and Other...
- Michael laughed and offered fifty dollars for the sweater, the overstockings and the muffler. Just as the second sleeve was being finished and before Mrs. Andy Ned had started the overstockings or the muffler, Andy Ned went away up to the Black Hat Creek range to look for the five steers that he...1967, Bruce Hutchison, Western Windows, Toronto, Ont.: Longmans Canada Limited, page 68
Also used as
overstocking is also the present participle and gerund of overstock.
Examples of overstocking in a sentence
- Michael laughed and offered fifty dollars for the sweater, the overstockings and the muffler.1967, Bruce Hutchison, Western Windows, Toronto, Ont.: Longmans Canada Limited, page 68:
- While Ensign [Pieter] Evriard runs him a close second with five pairs of white understockings and thirteen pairs of overstockings in a rather similar range of colours and materials.1982, Africana Notes and News, volume 25, page 163:
- Overstockings replaced the large, colorful, and eye-catching garters (kousebanden) that had previously been very popular, and which protected the expensive stockings from the rough boot.2003, Janny Venema, “The Van Rensselaers as commercial entrepreneurs”, in Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652–1664...
Forms of overstocking
| plural | overstockings |
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Origin of overstocking
From over- + stocking.
By surface analysis, overstock + -ing.
Questions about overstocking
- What does overstocking mean?
- Overstocking means a stocking intended to be worn over another stocking.
- How do you use overstocking in a sentence?
- Michael laughed and offered fifty dollars for the sweater, the overstockings and the muffler.
- What part of speech is overstocking?
- Overstocking is a noun.
- What is the plural of overstocking?
- The plural of overstocking is overstockings.
Words near overstocking in the dictionary
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