plural of stock split

(finance, US) An event wherein a company that has previously issued shares of stock increases the number of shares while reducing the value of each share accordingly.

plural of trustee stock

(firearms) An attachment on a gun used to make it fire repeatedly by using the gun's recoil to pull the trigger, modifying it to function in a similar way to a machine gun.

plural of bump stock

(nautical) Tackle used in hoisting an anchor on board ship to keep its stock clear of the ship's side.

(transitive, chiefly in the negative) To have faith in; to believe; to give credence to.

(obsolete) laughing stock

plural of jesting-stock

Any of the herbaceous or half-shrubby plants in the genus Matthiola of the family Cruciferae, having their flowers in racemes, and generally beautiful and fragrant; stocks.