Definition of Sockmen

1. sockman [n] - See also: sockman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sockmen

sockettes
sockeye
sockeye salmon
sockeyes
sockful
sockfuls
sockhop
sockhops
socking
sockless
socklessness
socklike
sockmaker
sockmakers
sockman
sockmen (current term)
socko
sockpuppet
sockpuppeteer
sockpuppeteers
sockpuppetry
sockpuppets
socks
socky
socle
socles
socman
socmanry
socmans
socmen

Literary usage of Sockmen

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

1. A History of the Weald of Kent: With an Outline of the Early History of the by Robert Furley (1871)
"Though called sockmen they did not take their name from the plough, for it rarely appears that they held by plough service. The services rendered by the ..."

2. Miscellaneous writings [ed. by A.B. Grimaldi]. by Stacey Grimaldi (1881)
"Four sockmen might give and sell their Land in the time of King Edward without the ... There are 3 Cottagers and 4 Serfs and 2 sockmen and I mill of 12 ..."

3. Domesday; Or, An Actual Survey of South-Britain,: By the Commissioners of edited by Samuel Henshall, John Wilkinson (1799)
"The fame Hugh holds three Rood-lands and a half in the fame Lath r, which three sockmen held of King Edward. Here one villain With three ..."

4. Rerum Britannicarum Medii ævi Scriptores: Or, Chronicles and Memorials of by Great Britain Public Record Office (1880)
"There are also adventitious tenants, who hold in the same manner by agreement as the villein sockmen, but such persons have not a privilege, ..."

5. Commentaries on the History, Constitution, and Chartered Franchises of the by George Norton (1869)
"1 Living within the BOC, and subject to the soc jurisdiction, both slaves and villeins might be said indeed, in that sense, to be sockmen : the term, ..."

6. Denham Parish Registers, 1539-1850, with Historical Notes and Notices by Denham, England (West Suffolk) Parish, Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey (1904)
"Who he was will appear when we get to the feudal lords This is a rough translation of the account of it. In Denham were 2 sockmen with 3 carucates of land. ..."

7. Yorkshire: An Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of by John Wainwright (1829)
"... should supply llie Lord with poultry and e£gs and other small provisions lor his hoard or entertainment."—Jacob on the Authority of Cowel. | sockmen ..."

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