stocker
/ˈstɑkɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.
noun
A racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing.
noun
One who crafts gun stocks.
noun
One who supplies raw material to a machine.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "When sheep are shipped as stockers from the ranges, the numbers are such usually as to admit of grading the animals before they are shipped."
- "The production of stockers and feeders should be confined to those parts of the country where the larger part of the land cannot be plowed profitably, and grass is the principal crop."
- "All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers, whether they go to grass or to the feedlot."
- "Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?"
- "For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere."
- "Ford Motor Company’s response to the Charger 500 was the 1969 Talladega and Cyclone Spoiler II, sleek, slippery stockers that forced Dodge designers back to the drawing board."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *stokk Old English stocc Middle English stok English stock English -er English stocker From stock + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɑkɚ/
- British English: /ˈstɒkə/