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Stocks logo #10101) Asset 2) Brths 3) Pillory 4) Prison 5) Securities
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Stocks logo #10101) Big Board listings 2) Colonial form of punishment 3) Fills the shelves 4) Financial page listing 5) Gillyflowers 6) Has on hand 7) Instrument of punishment 8) Keeps on the store shelves 9) Lays in 10) Pillory 11) Portfolio component 12) Portfolio contents 13) Portfolio group 14) Portfolio plethora
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Stocks logo #21000 Stocks are devices used internationally, in medieval, Renaissance and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by. ==Form and application== The stocks...
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Stocks logo #21000[shipyard] Stocks are an external framework in a shipyard used to support construction of (usually) wooden ships. They are normally associated with a slipway to allow the ship to slide down into the water. In addition to supporting the ship itself, they are typically used to give access to the ship`s bottom and sides. ...
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Stocks logo #20140Raw materials, work in progress and unsold consumer goods.
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Stocks logo #20546In Britain, it refers to government debt securities, such as a gilt-edged investment, where a reasonable level of interest can be earned on a very low risk investment. In America, a stock is more likely to be a share.
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Stocks logo #20606See Securities
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stocks logo #20688Wooden frame with holes used in Europe and the USA until the 19th century to confine the legs and sometimes the arms of minor offenders, and expose them to public humiliation. The pillory had a...
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Stocks logo #20766Stocks are small wooden structures which were used to punish people for small crimes. They have a wooden bench and a set of wooden planks with holes in, which were used to hold people's legs or arms. They were usually set up in public places, and the criminal would often have rotten fruit or vegetable thrown at them. Their use was abolished in 1837...
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Stocks logo #22399Commercial grain stocks include domestic grain in storage in public and private elevators at importa
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stocks logo #10444Generally used as another word for equities.  Technically, this more accurately refers to fixed interest securities.
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Stocks logo #21212A machine commonly made of wood, with holes in it, in which to confine persons accused of or guilty of a crime. It was used either to confine unruly offenders by way of security, or convicted criminals for punishment. This barbarous punishment has been generally abandoned in the United States.
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stocks logo #22506The part of a fish population which is under consideration from the point of view of actual or potential utilization.
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Stocks logo #21217Stocks are two boards with semi-circular holes, set one above the other within two posts, and padlocked so as to confine the legs of a seated person just above the feet. Formerly every parish had stocks fixed in some public spot in which petty offenders were confined as punishment.
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Stocks logo #20693Hand or machine-made bricks made in a mould
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Stocks logo #20694Hand or machine-made bricks made in a mould.
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Stocks logo #20861A wooden device previously used in oil tannages especially for chamois. Two wooden hammers pound the oil into the leather prior to hanging in a hot room for the oil to oxidise. The hammers are driven by an eccentric wheel. This process is now done in drums where temperature and humidity can be carefully controlled.
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stocks logo #20974 noun a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
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Stocks logo #21403The combined value of raw materials, work in progress or under construction and finished goods held.
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