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A stocking is an elastic garment covering the foot and lower part of the leg.
Stockings are close-fitting, variously elastic garments covering the leg from the foot up to the knee or possibly part or all of the thigh. Stockings vary in color, design, and transparency. Today, stockings are primarily worn for fashion and aesthetics, usually in association with mid-length or short skirts.
Stocking may also refer to:
- Stocking (forestry), a measure of tree density
- Stocking (surname), a surname
- Stocking, Austria, an Austrian municipality
- Stocking Creek, a stream in Minnesota
- Stocking Lake (disambiguation)
- Christmas stocking, a type of Christmas decoration
- Fish stocking, the practice of raising fish in a hatchery and releasing them into a river, lake, or ocean
- One of the three title characters of the anime series Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
- Stocking, the white leg marking for horses
In forestry, stocking is a quantitative measure of the area occupied by trees, usually measured in terms of well-spaced trees or basal area per hectare, relative to an optimum or desired level of density. A desirable level of stocking is often considered that which maximizes timber production, or other management objectives.
Stocking is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Stocking Creek is a stream in Wadena County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
