Meaning

(agriculture) Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition..

Definitions by Sense

1. (agriculture) Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.
2. (automotive) 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.
3. One who crafts gun stocks.
4. One who stocks shelves with inventory.
5. One who supplies raw material to a machine.

Example Sentences

Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?

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.

The production of stockers and feeders should be confined to those parts of the country where the larger part of the land cannot be plowed profitably, and grass is the principal crop.

All feeder calves wintered and sold in the spring are stockers, whether they go to grass or to the feedlot.

Any small-block Chevy engine, whether it be a stocker, street rod, or racer, will benefit from proper balancing.

For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere.

Ford Motor Company’s response to the Charger 500 was the 1969 Talladega and Cyclone Spoiler II, sleek, slippery stockers that forced Dodge designers back to the drawing board.

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.

Word Forms

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When Should You Use Stocker?

Use stocker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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