sock1 (sok)

[ IMG:content-1459.png:[blocks in formation] Item, j. candilstik, withoute sokettes, weiyng xviij. unces. Paston Letters, I. 473. There was a lamp of bra e, with eight socketts from the middle stem, like those we use in churches. Evelyn , Diary, Aug. 19, 1641. 3. In an at., specifically, the hollow of one part which receives another; the concavity or excavation of an articulation: as, an eye- socket; the socket of the hip.-4. In G mining, the end of a shot-hole, when this remains visible after the shot has been fired.-5. In well- boring, a tool with various forms of gripping mechanism, for seizing and lifting tools dropped in the tube.-6. In Right Scapula, seen the just, a defense of steel attached to the saddle, and serv from in front. G, glenoid fo a or socket. socket Socket, French form, end of 14th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") IMG:content-1460.png:[blocks in formation] repr. AS. * sōcтап (МЕ, socheman, ML. sokman nus, so com ann us, so cam ann us, socmannus, socke mannus), a feudal tenant or va al, A seignorie of pillage, which had a baron of old ever ventured to arrogate, burge and citizen, socman and bocman, villein and churl, would have burned him alive in his castle. Bulwer, My Novel, xii. 19. socmanry (sok'man-ri), n.; pl. socmanries (-riz). [ ing to protect the legs and thighs. Compare bur1, 3 (c). Also socquette. - Ball and socket. See ball1 . with or place in a socket.