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noun

Soc n. (Written also sock, and soke)

(O. Eng. Law)

(a)

The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.

(b)

Liberty or privilege of tenants excused from customary burdens.

An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. (Eng.)

Soc and sac (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship.

Sock n. A plowshare.

Sock n.

The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. "Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear."

A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

A warm inner sole for a shoe.

verb

Sock v. t. To hurl, drive, or strike violently; often with it as an object. (Prov. or Vulgar)

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Etymology of 'Sock'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sock" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the world's as wet as this," said Agnes, who had peeled off her brother's sock, and was now toasting it at the embers on a pair ...

— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster

... I, 'mad as a coot,' an' I tuk wan stip forward, an' the nixt I knew was the sole av my boot flappin' like a cavalry gydon an' the - funny-bone av my toes tinglin'. 'Twas a clane-cut shot - a slug - that niver touched sock or hide, but set me bare-fut on the rocks. At that I tuk Love-o'- Women by the scruff an' threw him under a bowlder, an' whin I sat down I heard the bullets patterin' on ...

— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling

... don't make no claims, old sock. Mebbe I'm handy with a fry-pan, mebbe I ain't. Likely you're jest partial to my flapjacks," the little man said in order to ...

— The Big-Town Round-Up • William MacLeod Raine

... "Safer than a sock, my boy. And just as simple. To-morrow will do for that, when we call on the shirt-makers and the shoe sharps. I'll put you in my bank; they'll take you on ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... snorted. "After twenty years of her? Comet-gas! Anyway, would you have the sublime gall to make passes at Warner Oil's heiress, with more millions in her own sock ...

— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith

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