See Also: ormer(medicine)
ormer(dictionary)

unstocked (iou) and ormer (iou)


unstocked (iou)



unstocked adjective. LME.
[from UN-1 + STOCKED.]
Of a gun: not fitted with a stock. LME.
Not provided with a stock of goods, animals, etc. M17.

ormer (iou)



ormer noun. M17.
[Channel Islands French = French ormier, from Latin auris maris ear of the sea, so called from its resemblance to the ear.]
A sea-ear or abalone of northern and Mediterranean waters, of the genus Haliotis; esp. H. tuberculata, used as Food in the Channel Islands.
ormering noun the collecting of ormers (in the Channel Islands) E20.