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goingforgold | 19:45 Sun 16th Oct 2011 | Crosswords
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LAST ONE: 1D A whip to keep in store (5) -T-C- (am thinking 'stock' as in shop but can't get the connection with whip)
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You use a stock whip to round up your stock (e.g. cattle).
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stock noun 1 (sometimes stocks) goods or raw material that a shop, factory, warehouse, etc has on the premises at a given time • Our stocks of packing material are getting low. 2 a supply kept in reserve • an impressive stock of fine wine. 3 equipment or raw material in use. 4 liquid in which meat or vegetables have been cooked and which can then be used as a base for soup, a sauce, etc. 5 the shaped wooden or plastic part of a rifle or similar gun that the user rests against their shoulder. 6 farm animals; livestock. 7 the money raised by a company through the selling of shares. 8 the total shares issued by a particular company or held by an individual shareholder. 9 a group of shares bought or sold as a unit. 10 ancestry; descent • of peasant stock. 11 any of various Mediterranean plants of the wallflower family that are cultivated for their bright flowers. 12 (the stocks) formerly a wooden device that was used for securing offenders who were held by the head and wrists or by the wrists and ankles, so that they could be displayed for public ridicule as a punishment, eg for drunkenness, whoring, etc. 13 reputation; standing. 14 the handle of a fishing rod, whip, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon stocc stick.
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Thank you both so much. cheers

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