stocking-foot

See also: stockingfoot

English

Alternative forms

• stockingfoot

Noun

stocking-foot (plural stocking-feet)

1. The part of socks, stockings, hosiery, or other flexible footwear that surrounds the foot.

   Experienced fly-fishers prefer stockingfoot waders.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XIX

     I gave her a shilling. She put it into an old stocking-foot which she took out of her pocket, and having tied it round and returned it, she told me to hold out my hand. I did. She arched her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it.

2. An unshod foot clad only in socks, stockings, or other hosiery.

See also

• stockinged