Stocked

a. and ppl. a. [f. STOCK sb.¹ and v.¹ + -ED.]

  † 1.  Set in the stocks, imprisoned. Obs.

c. 1425.  Found. St. Bartholomew’s (E.E.T.S.), 27. Oure lord ihesu criste, the whiche losith stokkid men.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 476/2. Stokkyd, yn stokkys, cip(p)atus.

  2.  Of a female animal: Impregnated, breeding.

1478.  Acta Audit. (1839), 74/2. xij stokit meris and a stag of a ȝere auld.

1490.  Acta Dom. Concil. (1839), 146/2. A stokkit mere and hir foloware price iiij li.

  3.  Of a fire-arm, a tool: Furnished with a stock.

1497.  Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 290. Serpentynes … stokked cxvj, vnstokked xxv.

1594.  in Highland Papers (S.H.S., 1914), I. 183. He schot him with my reid stocket hagbit.

1635.  Relat. Maryland, vii. 45. Item, 2 Piercers stocked.

1648.  Bury Wills (Camden), 217. My little black stocked peece inlayed with silver, and my case of redd stocked pistolls.

  † 4.  Of hose. Cf. STOCK v.¹ 3 b.

1598.  E. Guilpin, Skial. (1878), 48. The long stockt hose, or close Venetian.

  5.  Of a tree: ? Rooted up or felled.

a. 1595.  Southwell, St. Peter’s Compl. (1602), 72. Like stocked tree whose branches all doe fade.

  6.  Furnished with a stock or store. Also with adv., as well-stocked.

a. 1796.  Burns, ‘Thou’s welcome, wean,’ vi. Twill please me mair to hear an’ see ’t, Than stocket mailens.

1829.  F. Glasse, Belgic Past., iii. 46. Had your sires toil’d a century, or more, With a stock’d farm, they had not heap’d the store Which Strephon claims.

1859.  Reeve, Brittany, 228. We were led … through a large and well-stocked garden.

1897.  Meredith, Amazing Marriage, I. xv. 169. She could get up enthusiasm for a stocked hamper.

1909.  Edin. Rev., Oct., 319. A barely stocked purse.

  7.  Of cards: Fraudulently arranged or dealt.

1894.  Maskelyne, Sharps & Flats, vi. 147. He is enabled to know when the stocked cards are being given off and who has them.