Something stinks if it smells very, very bad. People often say their old shoes stink.
Stitching is a way of connecting two pieces of fabric together with loops of thread. The thread is pulled through the fabric with a needle when you are sewing by hand, or done automatically with a sewing machine. A lot of stitches in a row makes a seam. Stitches can be placed to make a pattern, like the embroidery in the picture.
Sometimes when you get a bad cut, your skin will be stitched back together to help it heal.
Scientific name: mustela erminea
Stock is made by cooking some foods in water for long enough that the water takes on the flavor of the things that were cooked in it. Stocks are usually made from cheap cuts of meat or leftover bones, vegetables, salt, herbs and spices.
The bones and vegetables are removed from the stock, leaving just the flavored liquid. Stock can be used as a base for making soup, sauces, gravy and stews.
Stocks are an old punishment device that holds people in place by the head and hands, or the feet. Strictly speaking, stocks only hold the feet and a pillory holds the head and hands.
Stocks were usually put in a public place, where the person being punished was humiliated. Passers-by were free to hurl abuse, rotten fruit or other filth at the person in the stocks.
