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Stok, Stock, v.¹ Also: stoikk-. P.p. also stocket. [ME and e.m.E. stokk(en (c1325), stocked p.p. (Lydgate), stokyt p.p. (1483-4); Stok n.¹]

1. tr. a. To furnish (an artillery piece) with a carriage. b. To attach (a bell) to the block of wood from which it is hung. —a. 1508 Treas. Acc. IV 111.
To the wricht that stokkit the gun to the king 1541 Treas. Acc. VIII 119.
Thre lyne buirdis … to stok ane grete culvering witht 1556 Dundee B. Ct. III 74a (13 Oct.).
Anent the stokyng of the culvering be George Fyf quhilk culvering wes … tane fra hym be the said Dauid eftir scho wes stokit in ane new stok 1567 Edinb. B. Rec. III 236.
To caus stok band and mont the townis artalyere 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 331.
The said Inglis artailȝarie wes lost [= unloaded] and stockit vpoun the schoir of Leith 1580 Reg. Privy C. III 320.
Twa hagbuttis of crok of found stokkit 1584 Perth B. Ct. (21 July).
To deliuer … ane culvering … being stokit 1585 9th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 193/1.
Ane battartt of found, stokit and garnesit with irneellipt. c1650 Spalding II 344.
[The Marques] causit carie to Strathbogie tua of Johne Andersonis schip cart peices to stokb. 1629 Fraserburgh Kirk S. II (1 Nov.).
That the bellis be new stokit & better hung 1657 Dunferm. Kirk S. 49.
This day the kirk bells being new stocked an[d] hung were begun to be couped

2. To place (a person) in the stocks. a1500 K. Hart 278.
Desyre lay stokkit by ane dungeoun dure 1637 Old Ross-shire II 37.
John Gregach for drawing the dirk to the greiv … £5, as also to be stokit & continew tharin during the lairds will

3. Of hose: To have or have been provided with a lower part or ‘stocking’ (Stok n.¹ 22) of the sort indicated. 1545–6 Treas. Acc. VIII 443.
Blak to be tua pair of schankis to the saiddis hois stokkit witht velvot 1545–6 Treas. Acc. VIII 443.
Ane pair of hois of his gracis stokkit witht blew velvot 1567 Anderson Collect. Mary II 174.
Ane pair of hois stocket with black welvet, pasementit with silver

4. To invest (money) (also, (up)on something); to entrust (money) in the hands of (another) (for ? safekeeping or ? investment).The 1689 quot. in (1) may be a transitive equivalent of 6 below.(1) 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV 101.
The principall thairof ay furthtcumand to thame [sc. children] at thair said age as salbe stokkit 1622 Edinb. Surgeons 76.
They all with ane consent hes stokkit the sowme of fyftie pundis … for the advancement of the wark presentlie wrought in St. Paullis wark 1636 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XXXII 220 (see Stok n.¹ 26). 1687 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 99.
The Act of Parliament appoints the fifth part in special adjudications to be the fifth not only of the principal, but effeiring to the principal and annualrents resting the time of adjudication, and stocked. … But, in total adjudications, we adjudge ordinarily for principal, annualrents and penalty, all stocked the time of adjudication into a liquid sum 1689 Melville Corr. 112.
They are prepairing and stoking money to com up in caice of adjurnment(2) 1675 Aberd. Council Lett. V 420.
Seing I have sustainit considerable prejudice alreadie by want of the customs of the lands which that money sould be stockit upon … as also the moneys ar not so improvin as they might otherwayes be if setleit upon land 1676 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 296.
The counsell ordaines the moneyes … to be wpliftit against Witsonday, and stockit and setleit of new altogether wpon land, or wther sufficient securitie 1693 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. IV 59.
It obliged him to lay 500 merks of his own means to the £1000 he got in tocher … but would not tie him down to stock it on land or annualrent, being a merchant, who behoved to trade with it(3) 1662 Banff Ann. I 146.
[These sums are] stockit in the handis of the provest 1696 Fountainhall Decis. I 732.
Colonel Meldrum, … had stocked in the Republick of Hamburgh's hands all the money he had gained in the Danish service

b. intr. To stock (in) with (others) (also, in an enterprise), = sense 4 above. 1630 Aberd. B. Rec. III 31.
The burrowis vndertaking the fisheing, gif it be expedient that the nobilitie and gentrie be admittet to stok with thame: answerit, that they will be content to admitt thair stoking, with conditioun [etc.] 1683 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 79.
In name of ther present pairtners or any others who shall heirafter stock in with them in the saids manufactories 1696 Edinb. Surgeons III 26.
Therfore … they willingly … doe stock in with the said company and adventure the summe of six hundred pounds sterling

5. To furnish, supply, provide (a person or thing) (with something). Also transf. 1574 Reg. Morton I 80.
[You] desyrit me to prouyd for all the weild meit and wenesone I mycht gwidlie get. War nocht the ewell wedder that hes bein this oulk ȝe hed bein better stokit 1648 Caldwell P. 114.
For peatts to stock the twa lymkillstransf. 1631 Red Bk. Menteith II 133.
He is counseller, he is on exchekker, he is director of the chancellary, and his sone is provydit to this place efter him, … quhilk may weill content him, for he is better stockit nor vther thrie a1658 Durham Blessedness Death 110.
The more aged men are, the more stocked are they in ignorance and senselessness

6. To be stoikkin up to sell, to have a stock of goods prepared for selling. 1513 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 145.
That nane be stoikkin up to sell quhill seven houris at somer and nine houris in wynter before none