(a) The trunk of a living tree; the base of a tree; the part of a bush or tree receiving a graft; also, a tree [quot. a1382, 1st]; also, ?a branch [quot. a1382, 2nd]; crabbe (fige, vine) ~; comen to the ~ ayen, of a cut tree: to grow back again; sellen upon the ~, sell (timber) before it has been cut down; wonen in stokkes, dwell in the woods; (b) a tree stump; a fallen tree; over ~ and (over) ston, over a long distance; (c) in generalizing phrases, freq. with alliteration: bi ~ other ston, anywhere; bothe ~ and ston, everything; braunch and ~, ?all vegetation; ?everything; not..at ~ ne ston, at nothing; nouther ~ nor strete, nothing at all; (d) fig. and in fig. contexts; gon from the braunches to the ~, to make more serious trouble; (e) ~ douve, a wild pigeon, either the stock dove Columba oenas or the wood pigeon Columba palumbus; (f) in proverbs and prov. expressions; oule on ~ and ~ on oule, ?only to make matters worse.

(a) The stem of a plant; a stalk; also fig.; caul ~, a stalk; (b) ?the fibrous inner part of a root; bete ~, a beet root.

The torso of a human body; a body stripped of its limbs; also, the trunk of an idol [1st quot.].

Anat. (a) A main vein or artery; (b) a cylindrical mass of tissues.

(a) A line of descent; lineage, ancestry; also, a race, kindred, family, tribe; ~ and rote; ~ after ~, generation after generation, in perpetuity; in fader ~, in the paternal ancestry; (b) a descendant; offspring, progeny [2nd quot.]; (c) a progenitor, an ancestor; the first ~; (d) the most excellent example, a paragon; rote and ~; (e) sort, kind.

(a) A piece of cut timber, log, plank; a block of wood; a post, beam; a ship's timber or plank [quots. a1425 *Medulla & c1440]; a piece of firewood; also fig.; -- also coll.; also, a bench [quot. ?a1425]; (b) wood as a building material or sculptural medium; (c) a wooden statue or idol; -- often used disparagingly; sweren bi stokkes and bi stones, to swear by idols; (d) in conventional comparisons, proverbs, and prov. expressions: something lifeless, motionless, silent, etc.; also as a term of abuse; ~ or ston; (e) in generalizing phrase: ~ and ston, everything.

In specific uses: (a) a post or timber used as a weapon; -- also coll.; stokkes and stones; (b) a chopping block; (c) an executioner's block; a block used in an execution; (d) pl. the framework on which a ship is built; (e) the upright beam of a cross; also, the lowest part or base of a cross [quot. ?a1425]; also, the stem of a candlestick; middel ~; (f) ?a draft pole of a cart or plow; (g) a timber or block of wood from which a bell is hung; (h) a gunstock; a trestle for a cannon; ~ gonne, a gun fixed with a stock; (i) ?a socket in which a bolt is secured; (j) the handle of a mace; (k) steled ~, an anvil; (l) an alms box; (m) a trough; draf ~, a slop trough; feding ~, a feed trough; fullinge ~, a fulling trough; holi water ~, a vessel for holy water; (n) a mousetrap; mus ~.

In other cpds.: (a) ~ balaunce, some kind of scales for weighing; ~ bed, ?a bed with a wooden frame; ~ bende, a metal band for a wagon; ~ gabulum, ?a tax or toll on the cutting of timber; ~ lok, a lock enclosed in a wooden case; ?~ stith, an anvil set on a block; ~ tre, ?a wooden framework for a saddle; (b) anker ~, the crossbar of an anchor; anvelt ~, the block or base of an anvil; bed ~ [for definition see bed n. 1c.(r)]; beting ~, a block on which flax is beaten; casting ~, some kind of block used in the casting process; chippinge ~, ?a chopping block; grape ~, a wine press; nave (navele) ~, the hub of a wheel; stith (stithie) ~, a block on which an anvil is set; swingelinge ~, a board used to beat flax or hemp; windas ~, a windlass bitt.

An instrument of punishment consisting of a wooden frame designed to confine the ankles and sometimes the hands of a seated prisoner, the stocks; -- usu. pl.; also, pl. fetters, bonds; also fig.; paire of stokkes; cuk ~, a cucking stool; -- ?error for cuk-stol n.

(a) A sum of money set aside for a specific purpose or to provide for certain expenses, a fund; (b) collective wealth, resources; funds, capital; (c) a supply or store of goods; (d) a unit of measure consisting of 60 pieces; -- ?error for scok, var. of shok n. (b); (e) in phrase: ~ of hei, ?a haystack; -- ?error for stak of hei [see stak n. (a)]; (f) a candle stub or chunk of wax; (g) a sum of money to be wagered or invested, a gambler's stake [cp. OED stock n.1, VI.48.a].

A sock or stocking; lin ~.

(a) In name of a ship; (b) pl. the stokkes, the name of a London market for meat, fish, etc.; (c) in surnames; (d) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.156].