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Definition of Socked
1. sock [v] - See also: sock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socked
Literary usage of Socked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"With the Milanese nobles who had socked to join him he turned north, and assaulted
the important town of Monza. The inhabitants beat him back, ..."
2. Seraphim Trilogy Book One; What the Herald Angel Sang by Teralee E. M. Bird (2004)
"Melody teased just a little as they sat with hands on the floor behind them,
socked toes warming, and watched the first ones go up in absorbant-fed flames. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"Sometimes aboy might say " My governor socked me a book ", or " My uncle has ...
I knew a boy who socked a friend seventeen dozen of oysters at a sitting at ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"—NW Knee-socked. Corn beaten down by storms is ' knee-socked down.'—NW See Knee-sick.
Knit. Of fruit, to set. ' The gooseberries be knitted a'ready. ..."
5. For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray Newton Rothbard (2006)
"The latter group is socked heavily in order to subsidize the former. ... And it
is the working poor who are socked a staggering amount to pay for the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"And then he proceeded, in manner moat spry, In his muscular arms to enfold him,
And said, " Dub up, or cUe you'll get socked in the eye ! " —Sporting Times. ..."
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