[Ads-l] postdating "stock" OED n1 sense 58.

[Bill Mullins]

OED has "In certain games, the portion of the pack of cards which is not dealt out, but left on the table to be drawn from according to the rules of the game." with entries from 1584 - 1878

1965 J. Scarne Scarne on Cards 137

After a player has drawn a card from the stock he may meld if he wants to and if he has the points required to meld.

https://archive.org/details/scarneoncards00scar/page/137/mode/1up?q=meld


1975 The Journal of the Playing-Card Society Vol. 3 No. 3 Feb 33

Anyone unable to play picks up a card from the stock.



2020 The Playing-Card:  Journal of the International Playing-Card Society Vol. 48 No. 4 Apr. - June 132/2

Once this procedure has satisfactorily concluded, the dealer gives a packet of three cards to each player before placing the remaining cards face down in the middle of the table to form the stock.




2023 Clear the Decks Vol. 37 No. 2 June 25/1

The “Stock” and the “Discard Pile” next to each other in a card tray.



The same sense also appears in a conjuring context.  Perhaps the definition in the OED should be modified to accommodate this?


1902 S. W. Erdnase The Expert at the Card Table 32

This blind retains the bottom stock and apparently shuffles the whole deck.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924084451222&seq=40&q1=retains



1931 The Magic Wand v20n152 Dec 184

The cards are then shuffled off to the break and the "stock" (composed of the selected card and the cards previously "run") are thrown on top of those in the left hand.



1950 Abracadabra v10n251 Nov 18 267

While this goes forward, secure the stock of cards from your pocket and add them to the top of the pack when it is returned to you.


1959 P. R. Willmarth The Magic of Matt Schulien: Chicago's Biggest Magical Entertainer 86

As he asks this question of the spectator, Matt goes to his lap and palms two cards from the stock there.



1997 N. Trost The Card Magic of Nick Trost 262

The opponent "plucks" the top card of the stock and turns it face up.


2006 H. Riser Secrets of an Escamoteur 53/2

These cards compensate for the two you have removed from the stock and for the next ace you will produce.




2008 Linking Ring Vol. 88 No. 7 Jul 75/2

The other hand was approaching this portion of the deck with the remainder of the deck, and the right hand was using the ring finger to begin to pivot the bottom card from the stock into a Kelly Bottom Replacement position and feed it into the gap between the bottom card and the remainder of the deck that was being held in the left hand.

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