I'm Into Stock

I'm Into Stock
When you tell friends (and some clients) you are into "stock," you might wonder why some of them seem confused. Our jumbo Webster's dictionary lists 55 meanings of the word "stock"!
To Wit:
stem; stick; block; the trunk of a tree; a tree stump; anything lacking life, motion, or feeling; one who is lacking in life, motion, feeling; a blockhead; a plant from which cuttings are taken; a rhizome; plants of the mustard family; the first of a line of descent; a supporting block, as for an anvil; the butt or handle of a whip, fishing rod; the frame of a plow; the wooden or metal piece of a rifle; a kind of wrench for holding thread-cutting dies; the crossbar at the upper end of the shank of an anchor; the wooden frame which supports the wheel and post of a spinning wheel; a former instrument of punishment; a frame of timbers supporting a ship during construction; a frame in which an animal is held for shoeing, etc; raw material, as, paper stock; water in which meat, fish, etc has been boiled; a store or supply; the total amount of goods on hand in a store, etc; the portion of a pack of playing cards; a debt represented by a tally or tallies; the capital, or fund of invested money; shares of corporate capital, or the certificates of ownership representing them; a part interest in something; a large, wide, stiff cravat, worn formerly; in zoology, a colony of connected zooids, forming a compound organism; a good grade of red and gray brick; in ecclesiastical use, a holy water vessel or the pillar by which it is supported; the net proceeds of a catch of fish; in mining, a mass of ore thick and irregular in form; to take stock; to inventory the amount of stock on hand; to take stock of; to set a value upon; to furnish with stock, as a farm; to keep or put in a supply of for sale or for future use; to stack, as cards; to put forth new shoots: said of a plant; common, ordinary, hackneyed, or trite; as, a stock joke; for the raising of, livestock; stock car --RE

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