stocks
/stɑks/ noun B2- A device, similar to a pillory, formerly used for public humiliation and punishment.
- The frame upon which a ship is built, and from which it is launched.
From the library
As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, “You live here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty.
On the floor they were pounding half a dozen stocks in which Maxwell’s customers were heavy investors.
Stocks and bonds, loans and mortgages, margins and securities—here was a world of finance, and there was no room in it for the human world or the world of nature.
From what I have heard from him this morning, I gather that he has lost heavily in dabbling with stocks, and that he is ready to do anything on earth to better his fortunes.
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