ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not furnished with a stock.
1388. in Nicolas, Hist. Royal Navy (1847), II. 475. La hulk … ove lapparaill … v. ankres dont un de eux est unstokked.
1497. Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 290. Serpentynes … stokked cxvj, vnstokked xxv.
1513. N. West, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. I. I. 70. A greate piece of ordenaunce of iij. yerds longe and mor, unstocked.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. II. 107. We had nowe but two ankers left vs, which were vnstocked and in hold.
1681. Cal. Treas. Bks., 1681–5, 4. The value of 200 barrels of guns or muskets unstocked.
1805. W. Hunter, in Naval Chron., XIII. 8. Our anchors being unstocked, as is the custom in Indiamen,… we found great difficulty in … steadying them, in order to get the anchors in the stocks.
2. Not provided with a stock of goods.
1633. D. R[ogers], Treatise Sacr., i. 161. A poore unstockt man is easily perceived in his wares, the small store and choice therof.
3. Not stocked with animals, etc.
1697. Walsh, Life V., ¶ 7, in Dryden, Virgil. Wars had laid Italy almost waste; the Ground was Uncultivated and Unstock’d.
1750. T. Carte, Hist. Eng., II. 719. The lands lay uncultivated and the farms unstocked, by reason of … continual depredations.
a. 1787. G. White, Selborne, vii. This chase remains un-stocked to this day.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 24. One bold and inartificial whole, unstocked with animation.
4. (See STOCK sb.1 44.)
1825. T. Hook, Sayings, Ser. II. II. 94. While sleepy lacqueys, their hose ungartered, and themselves unstocked, are crawling down the second staircase to breakfast.
