stocker

noun5

1. •
   One who stocks shelves with inventory.

   • 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
2. •
   One who supplies raw material to a machine.

   • _ has been working as a stocker at a rolling mill (a stocker keeps material on hand for the heaters). — 1930
3. •
   A racecar in certain classes of auto racing whose origins are nominally or notionally related to factory-stock autos, such as stock car racing or super-stock drag racing.

   • For a starter, a complete technical analysis of the winningest NASCAR stocker of all time, Richard Petty’s 1967 Plymouth Belvedere. — 1968
4. •
   Livestock that is wintered and then sold in the spring; often contrasted with a feeder when the focus is on intended disposition.

   • Will you keep those calves as feeders or only as stockers?
5. •
   One who crafts gun stocks.

   • 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. — 1900