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Once more, in what an almost infinite number of senses 'stock' is employed; we have live 'stock, 'stock' in trade or on the farm, the village 'stocks, the 'stock' of a gun, the 'stock'-dove, the 'stocks, on which ships are built, the 'stock' which goes round the neck, the family 'stock, the 'stocks, or public funds, in which money is invested, with other 'stocks' besides these.
And here we may bring in the 'stock'-dove, as being the 'stock' or stirps of the domestic kinds. Neither does this fact in the least invalidate our assertion. We have in them, as Cobbett expresses it well, the same combination of letters, but not the same word. Dict.; Kock's Historical Grammar of the English Language, vol. i. p. 223; Maetzner's Engl.
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