Definition of Socketing

1. socket [v] - See also: socket

Lexicographical Neighbors of Socketing

sock puppets
sockdolager
sockdolagers
sockdologer
sockdologers
sockdologizing
socked
socked on the nose
sockeroo
sockeroos
socket
socket joint
socket wrench
socket wrenches
socketed
socketing (current term)
socketless
socketlike
sockets
sockette
sockettes
sockeye
sockeye salmon
sockeyes
sockful
sockfuls
sockhop
sockhops
socking
sockless

Literary usage of Socketing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mining Engineer (1906)
"If this system were carried out with great care and precision, he (Mr. Cheesman) considered that it was the best method yet employed for the socketing of ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1903)
"This system of socketing is decidedly the best, because it prevents all unnecessary delay, ... 847, 848, and 849 show different methods of socketing. ..."

3. The New Book on Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1912)
"socketing is enough to make women weep and strong men tear their hair. ... The most ordinary faults which lead to socketing are that the player is taking ..."

4. A Treatise on Coal Mining by International Correspondence Schools (1900)
"This system of socketing is decidedly the best, because it prevents all unnecessary delay, ... 847, 848, and 849 show different methods of socketing. ..."

5. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Pipe-socketing Mach brought down and locked. Tbe head-piece, which has the counterpart form of the socket, Is then brought forward by the lever, ..."

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