0 a word used especially in shops for things such as socks, tights, and stockings -- （尤指商店中的）襪類（包括短襪、連褲襪和長襪等）
Moreover, frame-work knitting was in decline during the second half of the century as the hosiery industry became more mechanized.
Power-looms, hosiery, and worsted were the outcomes of the last process.
Migrants played an important role, for example, in the hosiery industry's considerable expansion.
Topographies and histories of local industry often emphasize differences between hosiery and lace, but they also note overlaps.
Explanation, advice on getting up slowly, exclude causative co-existing pathology, modification of hypotensive drug treatment, encourage increased fluid intake, support hosiery but poorly tolerated.
The division was not yet decisive, for some hosiery manufacturers seemed to be weighing the prospects of getting into yarn production.
The traditionally important hosiery industry only made a slow recovery.
By 1830 it had a mechanized cotton-spinning industry, a substantial handloom-weaving sector, and a rapidly growing cotton hosiery industry.
