Mining and Geol. [a. G. stock (lit. ‘stick’).] (See quots.)
1882. Geikie, Text-bk. Geol., IV. ix. § 2. 597. The cavernous spaces dissolved out in some rocks … may be filled with … ores. Irregular metalliferous masses of this kind have long been known in Germany by the name of Stocks (Stöcke).
1901. Ransome, in Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv., II. 255. Stocks are those ore bodies commonly referred to as ‘chimneys.’
