NOUN (2)

1. close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural);

2. the activity of supplying a stock of something;
- Example: "he supervised the stocking of the stream with trout"

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stock \Stock\ (st[o^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stocked
   (st[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stocking.]
   1. To lay up; to put aside for future use; to store, as
      merchandise, and the like.
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   2. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to
      supply; as, to stock a warehouse, that is, to fill it with
      goods; to stock a farm, that is, to supply it with cattle
      and tools; to stock land, that is, to occupy it with a
      permanent growth, especially of grass.
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   3. To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more
      previous to sale, as cows.
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   4. To put in the stocks. [R.] --Shak.
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   To stock an anchor (Naut.), to fit it with a stock, or to
      fasten the stock firmly in place.

   To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a
      certain manner for cheating purposes; -- also called to
      stack the deck. [Cant]

   To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass
      seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce
      grass.

   To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stocking \Stock"ing\, v. t.
   To dress in GBs. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Stocking \Stock"ing\, n. [From Stock, which was formerly used
   of a covering for the legs and feet, combining breeches, or
   upper stocks, and stockings, or nether stocks.]
   1. A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually
      knit or woven.
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   2. Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a
      stocking[1]; as:
      (a) A broad ring of color, differing from the general
          color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped;
          esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or
          knee of a dark-colored horse.
      (b) A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually
          converted by a special process into an incandescent
          mantle for gas lighting.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.

   Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other
      hosiery goods.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

stocking
    n 1: close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in
         matched pairs (usually used in the plural)
    2: the activity of supplying a stock of something; "he
       supervised the stocking of the stream with trout"