[f. STOCKING sb.]
1. trans. To furnish with stockings.
1755. Johnson, To Stocking, v. a., to dress in stockings.
1874. in W. Knight, J. C. Shairp, xiii. (1888), 315. The boys may be stockinged; will the mind be clothed and fed?
1892. The Voice (N.Y.), April, 28. Enough … cotton to stocking every foot.
† 2. To kill with a weapon consisting of a stone placed in the foot of a stocking. (Said of a soldier’s wife or a camp-follower.) Obs.
1762. in Grimston Papers (MS.), As she had a regular education in Flanders, will be of great service when we come to action, in stripping, despatching, fleecing and stockinging the enemy.
