stocker

名词 n.
/ˈstɒkə/    /ˈstɑkɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.
    — 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.
  2. 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.
    — For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.
  3. One who crafts gun stocks.
    — We mean by this that a man who has become great as a stocker would not necessarily know anything about barrel-boring, anything about actioning, anything about lock-making, nor anything about shooting.
  4. One who stocks shelves with inventory.
    — I worked for two winters at Kmart in Arizona as a stocker and security guard. I was a stocker for Payless Drugs for two winters in West Seattle.
  5. One who supplies raw material to a machine.
    — _ has been working as a stocker at a rolling mill (a stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters).

词形变化

stockers plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *stokk
Old English stocc
Middle English stok
English stock
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English stocker
From stock + -er.
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