stocken

Equivalent to stock +‎ -en (plural ending).

stocken

1. (obsolete) plural of stock

From Proto-Germanic *stukkōną (“to stop, stick”). Though a surface analysis as Stock (“stick, broken-off twig”) +‎ -en (“infinitive suffix”), as suggested by Pfeiffer, is not exactly correct, said analysis does trace back to the same root as *stukkōną.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃtɔkn̩], [ˈʃtɔkŋ̍]

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stocken (weak, third-person singular present stockt, past tense stockte, past participle gestockt, auxiliary haben)

1. to stop, to attain stagnation or cease to proceed

   Synonym: stillstehen

2. to stagnate, to have no progress
   • 1912, Franz Kafka, Das Urteil, in: Arkadia. Ein Jahrbuch für Dichtkunst, Kurt Wolff (1913), page 53:

     Nun betrieb er ein Geschäft in Petersburg, das anfangs sich sehr gut angelassen hatte, seit langem aber schon zu stocken schien, wie der Freund bei seinen immer seltener werdenden Besuchen klagte.

     Now he ran a business in Petersburg, which had promised very well initially but seemed to have been stagnating already for a long time, as the friend complained during his visits, which became more and more rare.

3. (cooking) to become consolidated as to have little fluidity
4. (preservation of goods) to take damp damage
5. (forestry jargon) to stand, to be rowed
6. (stonemasonry) to work by hammer

   Coordinate terms: bossieren, riffeln, spitzeln, beilen, spitzen, kröneln, polieren, schleifen, scharrieren, strahlen

• “stocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “stocken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “stocken” in Duden online
• “stocken” in OpenThesaurus.de

stocken

1. definite singular of stock