'Sock' definitions:

Definition of 'sock'

From: WordNet
noun
Hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee
noun
A truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind [syn: windsock, wind sock, sock, air sock, air-sleeve, wind sleeve, wind cone, drogue]
verb
Hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash]

Definition of 'Sock'

From: GCIDE
  • Sock \Sock\ (s[o^]k), v. t. [Perh. shortened fr. sockdolager.] To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. [Prov. or Vulgar] --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'Sock'

From: GCIDE
  • Sock \Sock\, n. [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.] A plowshare. --Edin. Encyc. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Sock'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A warm inner sole for a shoe. --Simmonds. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'sock'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • Soc and sac (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'sock'

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