stocks

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Noun Plural

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun stocks has 3 senses

stocks(n = noun.artifact) - a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction;

is a kind of

framework

stocks(n = noun.artifact) - a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod;

is a kind of

framework

stocks(n = noun.artifact) - 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;

is a kind of

instrument of punishment

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THESAURUS

stocks

Oregon boat, assessable stock, authorized capital stock, bilbo, blue chip, blue chip stock, bond, bonds, borrowed stock, branks, bridle, camisole, capital stock, chains, collar, common stock, convertible preferred stock, corporate stock, crank, cucking stool, cuffs, cumulative preferred stock, cyclical stock, defensive stock, deferred stock, ducking stool, eighth stock, equities, equity, equity security, fancies, fetter, finger pillory, floating stock, gag, glamour issue, growth stock, guaranteed stock, gyves, halter, hamper, handcuffs, high-flier, hobbles, hopples, hot issue, hypothecated stock, inactive stock, income stock, irons, issued capital stock, leading strings, leash, letter stock, loaned stock, long stock, manacle, muzzle, nonassessable stock, nonvoting stock, ordinary shares, pale blue chip, participating preferred stock, penny stock, pillory, preference stock, preferred stock, protective stock, quarter stock, rails, reins, restraint, restraints, reverse split, seasoned stock, shackle, share ledger, shares, short stock, special situation stock, specialty stock, speculative stock, split, standard stock, steels, stock, stock ledger, stock list, stock split, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, stranglehold, ten-share unit stock, tether, trammel, trammels, treadmill, treasury stock, trebuchet, triangle, triangles, unissued capital stock, utilities, voting stock, whipping post, wooden horse, yoke

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ROGET THESAURUS

stocks

Prison

N prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.

Securities

N securities, stocks, common stock, preferred stock, bonds, puts, calls, options, option contract, warrants, commercial paper, bearer bond, tax-exempt bond, callable bond, convertable bond, share, stock certificate, coupon, bond coupon, liquid assets.

Treasury

N treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper, cash register, kutcherry, bursary, strong box, strong hold, strong room, coffer, chest, safe, bank vault, depository, till, tiller, purse, money bag, money box, porte-monnaie, purse strings, pocket, breeches pocket, sinking fund, stocks, public stocks, public funds, public securities, parliamentary stocks, parliamentary funds, parliamentary securities, Consols, credit mobilier, bonds.

Scourge

N scourge, rod, cane, stick, ratan, rattan, birch, birch rod, azote, blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok, rod in pickle, switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon, whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout, cat, cat o'nine tails, rope's end, pillory, stocks, whipping post, cucking stool, ducking stool, brank, trebuchet, trebuket, triangle, wooden horse, iron maiden, thumbscrew, boot, rack, wheel, iron heel, chinese water torture, treadmill, crank, galleys, scaffold, block, ax, guillotine, stake, cross, gallows, gibbet, tree, drop, noose, rope, halter, bowstring, death chair, electric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, mecate, house of correction, goaler, jailer, executioner, electrocutioner, lyncher, hangman, headsman, Jack Ketch.

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