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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

... drawing-room, silence of the grave in the whole dwelling. A clatter of overshoes broke this silence; widow Clemens stood in the kitchen door. On her high forehead, above her gray eyebrows, shone the glass eyes of her spectacles; her left hand was covered with a man's sock which she was darning. She stood in the door and looked at Kranitski, bent, grown old, buried in gloomy silence, and shook her head. Then, as quietly as ever was possible for her, she approached the long-chair, sat on a stool which ...

— The Argonauts • Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)

... warmth of the blaze. Sharing this place of honour a fluffy grey cat sat gravely blinking, with its tail curled round its toes. Opposite the table were a rocking-chair and a work-basket, and Susan noticed that someone had been darning a large brown sock. ...

— Susan - A Story for Children • Amy Walton

... Senate, for its advice and consent as to the ratification, the treaties concluded and signed on the 4th day of August last between the United States and the Ioway, the Sock, and Fox tribes ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 1 (of 3) of Volume 10. • James D. Richardson

... which he should pay to the king. The bishop declared he would not thus impoverish his bishop's see, but would rather offer his life. On this they hanged the bishop out on the holm, beside the sling machine. As he was going to the gallows he threw the sock from his foot, and said with an oath, "I know no more about King Magnus's treasure than what is in this sock;" and in it there was a gold ring. Bishop Reinald was buried at Nordnes in Michael's church, and this deed was much blamed. After this Harald Gille was sole king of Norway ...

— Heimskringla - The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway • Snorri Sturluson

... the boatswain, and by the time he came back with a bundle of brass rods under his arm, and an old sardine-tin full of a mixture of oil, vinegar, and sand, and a saturated fragment of a worn-out worsted sock, I had more or less recovered from a violent attack of sickness, and was trying to keep my teeth from being chattered out of my aching head in the fit of shivering that ...

— We and the World, Part II. (of II.) - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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