Tessa Ransford OBE, Hon.DUniv (Paisley), MA, Dip Ed Poetry Practitioner and Adviser

STOCK The Oxford English Dictionary gives 69 definitions of 'stock'. When it means a fund or store, the word evokes the trunk, or stock, of a tree, 'from which the gains are an outgrowth'. Collapse occurs when you prune the tree so heavily that it dies. Ecology is the stock from which all wealth grows. (George Monbiot. Weekly Guardian 24.10.08) Take stock make stock root and stock stock up clear stock stocks and shares Stock the larder stock the shelves lock and stock stock and barrel Farm stock herd and flock choc a bloc build on rock Woodstock tree stock leaf and fruit good stock Cut and dock now stump now dwindling now finished shock shock Tessa Ransford November 2008