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stocker¹

  • /ˈstɑkɚ/ US
  • /ˈstɒkə/ UK

Sounds like stalker (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒkə(ɹ)

noun stockers

  1. Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition. When sheep are shipped as stockers from the ranges, the numbers are such usually as to admit of grading the animals before they are shipped.
  2. A racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing. For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.
  3. One who crafts gun stocks. We mean by this that a man who has become great as a stocker would not necessarily know anything about barrel-boring, anything about actioning, anything about lock-making, nor anything about shooting.
  4. One who stocks shelves with inventory. I worked for two winters at Kmart in Arizona as a stocker and security guard. I was a stocker for Payless Drugs for two winters in West Seattle.
  5. One who supplies raw material to a machine. _ has been working as a stocker at a rolling mill (a stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters).

Stocker²

Where it comes from

* As an English, German and Swiss/Alemannic German surname, from the noun stock (“stock, tree stump”), see Stock.

* As a Dutch surname, from the noun stocker (“jailer”).

* As an English surname, from the noun stocker (“one who sells stockfish”).

* Also as an English surname, variant of Stoker.

* As an Irish surname, from mac an stocaire (“son of the trumpeter”).

proper noun Stockers

  1. A surname.

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noun one who stocks shelves with inventory

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@misc{stocker_2026,
  title = {stocker},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/stocker},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}