Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sock"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Socialism \Socialism\, n.
{Socialism of the chair} [G. katheder socialismus], a term
applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of
German political economists who advocated state aid for
the betterment of the working classes. Sock \Sock\, v. t.
[Perh. shortened fr. sockdolager.]
To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an
object. [Prov. or Vulgar] --Kipling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Soc \Soc\ (s[o^]k), n. [AS. s[=o]c the power of holding court,
sway, domain, properly, the right of investigating or
seeking; akin to E. sake, seek. {Sake}, {Seek}, and cf.
{Sac}, and {Soke}.] [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sock \Sock\, n. [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.]
A plowshare. --Edin. Encyc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sock \Sock\, n. [OE. sock, AS. socc, fr. L. soccus a kind of
low-heeled, light shoe. Cf. {Sucket}.]
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. --Dryden.
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. --Simmonds.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sock
n 1: hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn
inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the
knee
2: a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at
airports) to show the direction of the wind [syn: {windsock},
{wind sleeve}, {drogue}]
v : hit hard [syn: {bop}, {whop}, {whap}, {bonk}, {bash}]
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