Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) stockings.

1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 52: Stock-drawers, Stockings.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Stock-drawers Stockings.
1708		J. Hall Memoirs (1714) 13: Stockdrawers, Stockings.
1718		C. Hitchin Regulator 19: Stock-Drawers, alias Stockings.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 112: A Pair of Breeches or Stockings A Pair of Stock-Drawers A Pair of Stock-Draers [sic].
1753		J. Poulter Discoveries (1774) 43: Stomps and Stop [sic] Drawers; Shoes and Stockings.
1768		(con. 1710–25) Tyburn Chronicle II in Groom (1999) xxix: Stock Drawers Stockings.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1786		Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.