SOCKED

Verb

socked

simple past tense and past participle of sock

Anagrams

• deckos

Source: Wiktionary


SOCK

Sock, n. Etym: [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.]

Definition: A plowshare. Edin. Encyc.

Sock, n. Etym: [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 sumbol of comedy, of the comic drams, 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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