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Definition of Socking
1. sock [v] - See also: sock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socking
Literary usage of Socking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, Stephen Keyes Williams, Edwin Burritt Smith, Ernest Hitchcock, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1882)
"... of Die law of nations, and the application of the French decree respecting
the slave trade, and the parties socking damages were stained with crime. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"... are derived the three kinds of pumps now commonly used, the socking, the
forcing, and the lifting pump. 310. The common sucking pump is represented in ..."
3. Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of by Sussex Archaeological Society (1868)
"8£d. ; and for laying her forthe and socking of her, 2s. ... The terms " to
socke " and " socking " I never met with before. Their meaning is obvious. ..."
4. Testimony Taken by the Subcommittee on the Tariff of the Senate Committee on by United States, Senate, Congress, Committee on Finance (1888)
"... of molasses would come to this country socking a market in its crude state.
The molasses-boiling houses being out of existence, and therefore not in ..."
5. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1896)
""That was a socking big fish." NY w. some place: somewhere. " Let's go some place."
NY e., c., w., O. n. song-valet : words of a song. ..."