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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A stocking.
2. 2
   A 16th-century stocking reaching above the knee and worn with upperstocks. historical

   "when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks"

Example

More examples

"when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks"

Etymology

From nether- + stock.

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