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stocketh

stocketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stock.

Meaning of stock

Verb

stock (third-person singular simple present stocks, present participle stocking, simple past and past participle stocked)

  1. To have on hand for sale.
    • The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
  2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
    • to stock a warehouse with goods
  3. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
  4. To put in the stocks as punishment.
    • Poor Tom, that[…]eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool; who is whipp'd from tything to tything, and stock'd, punish'd, and imprison'dc. 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...
  5. To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
  6. (dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

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Origin of stocketh

stock + -eth

Questions about stocketh

What is stocketh the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stocketh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stock.

Words near stocketh in the dictionary

  1. stockens
  2. stocker
  3. stockers
  4. Stockert
  5. Stockerts
  6. stocketh
  7. Stockett
  8. Stocketts
  9. stockfeed
  10. stockfish
  11. stockfishes

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