Crossword-Solution: STOCKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Stocking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Stock |
| Stocking | n. | A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven. |
| Stocking | v. t. | To dress in GBs. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “STOCKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Item hung on Christmas Eve | 1 answer |
| Toy receptacle | 1 answer |
| Yuletide hanging | 1 answer |
| close-fitting covering for the foot and leg | 1 answer |
| the activity of supplying a stock of something | 1 answer |
| Having available for sale – (combined with 8d – small gift) | 1 answer |
| Bit of hose | 2 answers |
| Mantel piece? | 3 answers |
| Hosiery item | 5 answers |
| FEMININE garment | 9 answers |
| Lingerie item | 10 answers |
| CLOSE-FITTING HOSIERY TO COVER THE FOOT AND LEG | 11 answers |
| Christmas Decoration | 21 answers |
| Hose | 31 answers |
| filling | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STOCKING (5)
She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs stocking around your throat.
His shrunken brown flannel dress had been washed many times and left a long stretch of stocking between the hem of his skirt and the tops of his clumsy, copper-toed shoes.
Then she went out through the diningroom, where the boys were getting their lessons at the long table; through the sitting-room, where Thor was asleep in his cot bed, his dress and stocking hanging on a chair.
Well!—what have you to say?—is not the Pyncheon House my own, while I’m alive?” After this incident, Hepzibah retreated to the back parlor, where she at first caught up a half-finished stocking, and began knitting at it with nervous and irregular jerks; but quickly finding herself at odds with the stitches, she threw it aside, and walked hurriedly about the room.
This upper robe concealed what at first view seemed rather inconsistent with its form, a shirt, namely, of linked mail, with sleeves and gloves of the same, curiously plaited and interwoven, as flexible to the body as those which are now wrought in the stocking-loom, out of less obdurate materials.
Quotes with STOCKING (3)
I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.
We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.
You really shouldn’t have come,” Lord Blackthorne said, his hand slipping across my faceto cup my jaw, fingers brushing my cheek. I shrieked, shrinking back and kicking at my captorwith stocking-covered feet. “Such a pretty child, in such an ugly place. Tell me, do you thinkyour dear husband would mind if I stole a kiss from the bride?” Kicking him in the shin, I spun, making him release me. I climbed off whatever I’d landedon, aiming my palms out and wishing that I could see…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1979–2018).