stocker

/ˈstɑkɚ/

stocker means A surname.

stocker is pronounced /ˈstɑkɚ/.

Etymology

* 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”).

name

A surname.

noun

Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.e.g.“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.” — 1914, Thomas Shaw, Management and Feeding of Sheep, Orange Judd Co., page 361:
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.e.g.“For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.” — 1968, Car Life, page 75:
One who crafts gun stocks.e.g.“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.” — 1900, George Teasdale, Experts on Guns and Shooting, Sampson Low, Marston & co., page 307:
One who stocks shelves with inventory.e.g.“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.” — 2003, Dominick Budnick, My Life as a Miracle: A Life of Fighting Cancer, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
One who supplies raw material to a machine.e.g.“_ has been working as a stocker at a rolling mill (a stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters).” — 1930, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, The Negro in American Civilization, H. Holt and Company, page 87:

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Words closest in meaning

By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.

stockgrower 60% match — A person who raises livestock; a stockman. vs stocker →
stockbreeder 57% match — A person who breeds and raises livestock. vs stocker →
stockworker 56% match — A person who handles (receives, sends, records &c) stock (goods) vs stocker →
stockable 54% match — Able to be stocked, or kept on hand for sale etc. vs stocker →
stockman 54% match — A man who raises or looks after livestock. vs stocker →
stockfeed 52% match — feed for livestock vs stocker →
stockrider 52% match — A cowboy. vs stocker →
stockpiler 52% match — One who stockpiles. vs stocker →