What does stocking-foot mean?

stocking-foot

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English

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"Experienced fly-fishers prefer stockingfoot waders."
"1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XIX I gave her a shilling. She put it into an old stocking-foot which she took out of her pocket, and having tied it round and returned it, she told me to hold out my hand. I did. She arched her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it."

stocking-feet (plural) stockingfoot (alternative)

stockinged sock foot

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