All 3 Uses of
stock
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.
p. 19.3 *stock = regarding shares of ownership of corporations
- He went to the court reporter, said something, and the reporter entertained us for some minutes by reading Mr. Tate's testimony as if it were stock-market quotations: "…which eye her left oh yes that'd make it her right it was her right eye Mr. Finch I remember now she was bunged."
p. 200.4
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Miss Caroline stood stock still, then grabbed me by the collar and hauled me back to her desk.†
p. 24.2 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(stock as in: the stock market) shares of ownership of a corporation
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
There are many other common meanings of stock such as:- goods or merchandise available for sale
- animals raised for sale such as cattle or pigs
- a broth used for soup
- the part of a rifle to which the barrel and firing mechanism are attached
- paper used by a printer or publisher