'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
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ballet skirt,
- bang,
- bash,
- bat,
- beating,
- belt,
- biff,
- bladder,
- blow,
- bonk,
- bonnet,
- boot,
- breech,
- buskin,
- cap,
- cap and bells,
- chop,
- clap,
- clip,
- cloak,
- clobber,
- clout,
- clump,
- coat,
- coif,
- coldcock,
- costume,
- coxcomb,
- crack,
- cut,
- dash,
- deal,
- deal a blow,
- deck,
- dig,
- ding,
- dint,
- disguise,
- drub,
- drubbing,
- drumming,
- fetch,
- fetch a blow,
- frock,
- fusillade,
- getup,
- gown,
- hat,
- hit,
- hit a clip,
- hood,
- hose,
- hosiery,
- jab,
- jacket,
- knock,
- knock cold,
- knock down,
- knock out,
- let have it,
- lick,
- mantle,
- masquerade,
- motley,
- outfit,
- paste,
- pelt,
- plunk,
- poke,
- pound,
- punch,
- rap,
- rig,
- shirt,
- shoe,
- slam,
- slapstick,
- slog,
- slug,
- smack,
- smash,
- smite,
- snap,
- soak,
- socks,
- sough,
- stocking,
- stockings,
- strike,
- strike at,
- stroke,
- swat,
- swing,
- swipe,
- tattoo,
- thump,
- thwack,
- tights,
- tutu,
- wallop,
- whack,
- wham,
- whop,
- yerk