stocking

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A close-fitting, usually knitted covering for the foot and leg made from nylon, silk, cotton, wool, and similar yarns.
• noun An item resembling this covering.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A close-fitting covering for the foot and lower leg.
• noun Something like or suggesting such a covering.
• To dress in stockings; cover as with stockings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit or woven.
• noun Any of various things resembling, or likened to, a stocking{1}
• noun A broad ring of color, differing from the general color, on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped; esp., a white ring between the coronet and the hock or knee of a dark-colored horse.
• noun A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
• noun See Bluestocking.
• noun a machine for knitting stockings or other hosiery goods.
• transitive verb To dress in GBs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A soft garment worn on the foot and lower leg, usually knit or woven, worn under shoes or other footwear.
• verb Present participle of stock.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the activity of supplying a stock of something
• noun close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)