Stocks
Stocks are feet restraining devices that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code. The law describing its use is cited by the orator Lysias: "'He shall have his or her foot confined in the stocks for five days, if the court shall make such addition to the sentence.' The 'stocks' there mentioned, Theomnestus, are what we now call 'confinement in the wood'".
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- nounA store or supply.
- nounThe capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- verbTo have on hand for sale.
- verbTo provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- nounA thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
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