Noun

(en noun)

(agriculture) livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring

* 1914 , Thomas Shaw, Management and Feeding of Sheep , Orange Judd Co., page 361:

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.

* 1918 , Frank Duane Gardner, Live Stock and Dairy Farming , The John C. Winston Company, page 53:

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.

* 1988', '' Beef: '''Stocker Cattle , Clemson University, page 1:

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

(automotive) stock car; a car used for racing but without significant alteration since its production by the manufacturer

* 1968 , Car Life , page 75:

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

* 1993 , Mike Mueller, Chrysler Muscle Cars (ISBN 087938817X), MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, page 86:

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.

* 2002 , Jim Richardson, How to Build a Small-Block Chevy for the Street (ISBN 0760310963), page 58:

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

One who crafts gun stocks

* 1900 , George Teasdale, Experts on Guns and Shooting , Sampson Low, Marston & co., page 307:

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.

One who stocks shelves with inventory

* 2003 , Dominick Budnick, My Life as a Miracle: A Life of Fighting Cancer (ISBN 1553954122), Trafford Publishing:

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 , Donna Goodenough, Deadly Thirst (ISBN 1412005523), page 80:

There were plenty of jobs at Star Crest that someone with a mental deficiency could handle and Davenport sought to get Alvin employed as a stocker .

one who supplies raw material to a machine

* 1930 , Charles Spurgeon Johnson, The Negro in American Civilization , H. Holt and Company, page 87:

_ has been working as a stocker' at a rolling mill (a ' stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters).

Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable) The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.

There's a lot of storage space in the loft.

(usually, uncountable) An object or place in which something is stored.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 1, author=Staff writers, title=Fires rage as business counts cost, work= citation

, passage=Melbourne's water storages plunged by 0.7 per cent in a week, down to 33.1 per cent capacity, as Victoria recorded its second-driest January on record.}}

* 2011 (2008), Wan Renpu, Petroleum Industry Press (translator), Advanced Well Completion Engineering , page 115,

Underground natural gas storages' are underground facilities for storing natural gas. At present, there are three types of underground natural gas '''storages''' worldwide, which include depleted oil and gas reservoir gas '''storages''', salt-cave gas '''storages''' and aquifer ' storages .

* 2012 , A. Grinham, B. Gibbes, D. Gale, M. Watkinson, M. Bartow (University of Queensland), Extreme rainfall and drinking water quality: a regional perspective'', C. A. Brebbia, ''Water Pollution XI , page 187,

Low impact storages' included the northern and southern region?s Cooloolabin Dam, Baroon Pocket Dam, Leslie Harrison Dam, Hinze Dam and Little Nerang Dam. Highly impacted '''storages''' included central region?s Wivenhoe Dam, Somerset Dam and North Pine Dam (Fig. 2), where TSS concentrations in these central '''storages''' where(sic) more than double compared to northern and southern ' storages (Fig. 2A).

(usually, uncountable, computing) Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than memory.

I?d recommend backing up these files to storage before reinstalling the operating system.

* 2007 , Ramesh Bangia, Computer Fundamentals and Information Technology , Firewall Media, India, page 43,

Secondary storages are used to store system programs (viz; operating system, assembler, interpreter, compiler and so on), data files, software packages and so on.

(uncountable) The price charged for storing goods.