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Stokin(g)s, Stockin(g)(i)s, n. pl. Also: stokinis, -es, stoke(i)ns, -eines, stokinges, stockines, -ens, -ennes, -eines, -eenes, -ones, stoquens, stuckhans, stookinges, stockeningis, -en(g)is, -eingis. Sing. stockine, -en. Coll. stoeikeing. [e.m.E. stockings (1583), stokyngs (1586), sing. stockin (1694); coll. stocking (1599); Stok v.¹ 3.] A (pair of) stockings. Also with various qualifiers specifying the material, purpose, etc. of the stocking.For ryding … stockins, cf. riding sokkis Riding vbl. n. 4 b. Stirrup stockens, ‘a kind of footless stocking having a strap which passes underneath the foot’ (OED, s.v. Stirrup n. 2 c). Halfe stockings, ? stockings coming halfway up the leg. Cf. Half adj. 3 c. Under stokens, cf. OED Under-stockings (twice, 17th c.), no definition. Listing stockins, see Listing n. c.For further exx. see Acts XII Index, s.v. Stocking.pl. (1) 1621 Reg. Great S. 44/2.
Pro confectione omnium generum lie sayis, grograynis, bais, hunscottis, stockingis ac ceterorum generum lie stuffis 1636 Irons Leith II 608.
The stemming stuffs and stokings made in Edinburgh and in the town of Leith 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI 152.
Mutches keiringes stookinges 1662 Dumbarton B. Rec. 81.
Stockings 1664 Misc. Maitl. C. II 514.
Stockenengis a1666 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 28b.
To Margaret Orme to buy stockeenes and wther thingis to the bairnes a1666 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 29.
Tuo paire of stockeneingis to coatchman and footman a1666 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 41b.
Stockennes a1666 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 43.
For solling his Lordshipis stockenenis a1666 Household Bks. Archb. Sharp MS 48b.
Stockeines 1671 Aberd. Council Lett. V 81.
In respect the stockings which ar ane great part of the traid of this brughe … ar subject by long lying unsold at the port [etc.] 1673 Montgomery Mem. 332.
Stokens 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 297.
Riding all the way in single stockings, the weather being sharp, dyed shortly after his return 1675 Cunningham Diary 65.
Stockins 1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 100.
To my wife to pay a chapman for 4 pair stockins to the lads £4 6 s. 1684 Edinb. B. Rec. XI 132.
The saids litsters has greater affinity with the bonnetmakers then any other of the saids incorporations in sua far as they litt all the wooll ther stockings and nightcaps are made of 1701 Brand Orkney & Shetl. 73.
The Orkney men also bring sometimes stockins, ale and the like which they know to be vendible here 1715 Lanark B. Rec. 290.
Stuckhans(2) 1606 Inverness Rec. II 45.
Sex pair of women stockones at sewin schilling the pair(3) 1583 Cal. Sc. P. VI 690.
Ane dessoun pair of worssat stokinis to my self and my brother 1614 Laing MSS 138.
Two paire of worset stokeins meit for ane lardge young womanis leg 1614 Laing MSS 138.
Two paire of carnatione silk stokeins c1633 Buccleuch Mun. II 280.
Ane pair of gray milned stockinis 1664 Misc. Maitl. C. II 518.
Stockeningis 1661–70 Old Ross-shire I 143.
Serg stokings and grytt stokings 1672 Thanes of Cawdor 326.
Stockines 1684 New Mills Manuf. 82.
That the milned worset stockens be given to the company at six shillings six pence and the unmilned be reduced to five shillings and sixpence the pair 1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII 357.
A pair of gray stockins lyned with beirskin 1691 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. IV 28.
Stoquens 1697 Foulis Acc. Bk. 207.
For a pair worsit stockins somwhat grosse for landward(4) 1583 Sc. Ant. I 77.
iij payr of fyne knyt stokings 1643 Edinb. Test. LX 292b.
Sextene pair of Kilmarnock stokinges estimat all to fyftie pundis 1701 Argyle P. 62.
5 pair of long knit stokens for the footmen, [£1] 1705 Foulis Acc. Bk. 369.
To Mr. Hathorne for a pair loom stockins to my gray cloathes £4 3 s.(5) 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 155.
50 souse for a pair of halfe stockings 1695 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 189.
For under stokens, 18 s.(6) 1676 Cunningham Diary 69.
For a pr: of threed stirrup stockens, £1 16 s. 1676 Cunningham Diary 70.
For a pr: of ryding tapped stockins, £2 16 s. 1696 Foulis Acc. Bk. 199.
For listing stockinssing. a1686 Turner Mem. 59.
I misd one linnen stockine, one halfe silke onecoll. c1643 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 60.
Gevin to feit thrie pair of stoeikeing thrie quarter of boitcarsay

b. attrib. and comb.attrib. 1575 Edinb. Test. III 328.
Foure vnce of stoking silk of diuers colouris price xxx s. — 1682 New Mills Manuf. 22.
Foure silk stocken frames 1688 New Mills Manuf. 189.
Orders a roup … of … stocken framescomb. 1674 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS 4 March.
Margart Hendersoun stokin weiver 1683 New Mills Manuf. 58.
To … mak ane setllement with the stoking wevers for working the pair of the new fashoned stript hoes