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stocks
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Princeton's WordNet
stocksnoun
a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction
stocksnoun
a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
stocksnoun
a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
Wiktionary
stocksnoun
A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.
stocksnoun
Plural form of stock.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Stocksnoun
Commonly without singular. Prison for the legs.
Fetch forth the stocks:
As I have life and honour, there shall he sit ’till noon. William Shakespeare.Tom is whipt from tything to tything, stock-punish’d, and imprisoned. William Shakespeare, King Lear.
I have sat in the stocks for the puddings he hath stol’n, otherwise he had been executed. William Shakespeare, Two Gent. of Verona.
Matrimony is expressed by a young man standing, his legs being fast in a pair of stocks. Henry Peacham.
The stocks hinder his legs from obeying the determination of his mind, if it would transfer his body to another place. John Locke.
Wikipedia
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 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”" (Lys. 10.16)
Wikidata
Stocks
Stocks are devices used internationally, in medieval, Renaissance and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by. Since the purpose of putting offenders in the stocks was to expose them to ridicule and mockery, passers-by were encouraged to throw mud, rotten eggs, moldy fruit and vegetables, smelly fish, offal, and excrement at those being punished.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
STOCKS
An unreliable commodity bought and sold by gamblers. If you win, it's an investment; if you lose, a speculation.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
stocks
A frame of blocks and shores whereon to build shipping. It has a gradual declivity towards the water.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
STOCKS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stocks is ranked #7107 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Stocks surname appeared 4,708 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Stocks.
80% or 3,769 total occurrences were White.
14.8% or 701 total occurrences were Black.
2.2% or 104 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2% or 94 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.5% or 24 total occurrences were Asian.
0.3% or 16 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stocks in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stocks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of stocks in a Sentence
Investors are keen to buy Domty at a premium to the IPO price, which is giving confidence that the prices of other stocks are also at attractive levels.
This is just a kneejerk reaction, based on a bear thesis that Express Scripts will start to dictate prices, i don't see how this is any different than any other company in another sector getting more competition. Soon people will go through the stocks one-by-one to see which got oversold.
If they continue to run at these levels then we will see massive builds in distillates and gasoline stocks when the peak demand season is over for gasoline.
The early movers in cannabis that listed their stocks a few years ago did so at a fortuitous time and were able to raise a lot of money astronomically fast. But they grew very quickly and now sales have not matched investor expectations.
Today is the first time in a while when both growth and value stocks are doing pretty well. It’s been either or for much of the last few weeks and today it’s both, breadth matters, and that’s something investors like to see.
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