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stockus [ME stock, stok] 1 trunk of a tree, log. a1162 singulis annis quendam stocum in bosco ‥ ante Natale Domini ad calefaciendum monachos Doc. Theob. 256 p. 485 (= MonA VI 1660b). 2 draught-pole of cart or plough, or part of plough to which ploughshare is attached. 1276 in custu carectarum et karrorum ‥ in virgis emptis ad ~os ligandos et carectas erigendas ij d. Ac. Stratton 189. 3 (pl.) instrument of punishment consisting of wooden frame confining prisoner's ankles, stocks (in quot. name of meat market in London). ordinacio facta pro carnificibus de Stokkis ‥ ordinatio inter piscenarios et carnifices apud le Stokkes MGL I 713.

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