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Sock   /sɑk/   Listen
noun
Soc  n.  (Written also sock, and soke)  
1.
(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.
2.
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.  
1.
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."
2.
A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
3.
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)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sock" Quotes from Famous Books



... you may call 'Varon, un Normand', and 'Sostrate, un Manceau, qui vaut un Normand et demi'; and, considering the 'denouement' in the light of trick upon trick, it would undoubtedly be below the dignity of the buskin, and fitter for the sock. ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... this country," the old woman went on half in soliloquy; "a bit of this and a bit of that and not much of either. I pity the housekeepers ye'll make yet. God help the poor men that are waiting for ye. Many's the missing button and broken sock they'll have to ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"

... feeling of delirium under the stars. That is why a School for Wives would be so useful. After passion is dead, it would be a poor creature of a husband who couldn't find comfort living in the same house with a woman who had obtained her certificate for economical housekeeping and sock-mending. You see, the home is the wife's part of the business. The husband only comes in on sufferance, to pay the bills, listen to complaints, and be a "man about the place," should a man be required. A happy home, a comfortable home, that is a wife's creation. But she can't create the ...
— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King

... bedstead with feather-bed, bolster, rug, blanket and sheets, two long table cloths, twenty-eight napkins, four towels, one chest, two warming pans, four brass candle-sticks, four guns, a carbine and belt, a silver beaker, three tumblers, twelve spoons, one sock and one dram cup.[109] ...
— Patrician and Plebeian - Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion • Thomas J. Wertenbaker

... course well knew, Rare pastime for the ragamuffin crew! Who welcome with the crowing of a cock, This hero of the buskin and sock. ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan


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