netherstock
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netherstock (plural netherstocks)
- A stocking.
- (historical) A 16th-century stocking reaching above the knee and worn with upperstocks.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks