stock n PRATT stock skate for comb in sense 3.
3 Comb ~ skate: homemade skate, the blade embedded in a narrow block of wood.
1986 SAUNDERS 36 [We] had homemade skates made from a file or other piece of hard metal reworked and set in a wooden stock, called stock skates. Stock skates were tied on with leather thongs threaded through holes in the wood.
