In 7 stocken-, -in, stoken-. [? f. STOCKING vbl. sb. in the sense ‘keeping in stock.’] A kind of cider-apple. local.
1629. Parkinson, Parad. (1904), 588. The Stoken apple is a reasonable good apple.
1656. Beale, Heref. Orchards (1657), 45. The apples we commend for grafts, are the Stockin-apple [etc.].
1676. Worlidge, Cyder, 163. The Stocken or Stoken-Apple is likewise in esteem there [in the cider countries], although not known by that name in many places.
1764. Museum Rust., II. x. 37. These [cider apples in Herefordshire) go under various names, as … the stocking-apple,… &c.
