Meaning

• A store or supply.

• The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an individual shareholder.

• The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.

• Stock theater, summer stock theater.

• The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.

• Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.

• A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.

• Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.

• A bar, stick or rod.

• A type of (now formal or official) neckwear.

• A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle

• A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.

• A cover for the legs; a stocking.

• A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.

• (by extension) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.

• The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.

• (in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.

• (in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.

• In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.

• The beater of a fulling mill.

Meaning

• To have on hand for sale.

  "The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables."

• To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.

  "to stock a farm, i.e. to supply it with cattle and tools"

• To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.

• To put in the stocks as punishment.

• To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.

• To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.

Meaning

• Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.

  "stock items"

• (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.

• Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.

  "He gave me a stock answer"