Middle English Dictionary Entry
soket n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | soket n.(1) Also sokette, soked, socket, saket. |
| Etymology | AF soket & AL sokettus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A spearhead, orig. shaped like a plowshare; (b) a hollow part or piece into which an object fits; also fig.; (c) ?a kind of binding used to fasten a flag to a staff.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1312) Will Durham in Sur.Soc.217 : ij capita lancea et j socket, vj d.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7190 : Gaheriet mett þe douke Faunel Wiþ a launce, þe soket of stiel.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4408 : He took in honde a rede pensel, Wiþ a soket of broun stel.
- a1450 Gener.(1) (Mrg M 876)3855 : Thurgh [Generides] shelde with the shaft He smote it in to the sokett, That the Iren with the hawberk met.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)577/18 : Cuspis: a Soket.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)4579 : Vndernethe the lyfte pappe Thorowe all his hernes..The sokett glasyd away.
- c1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)1554 : Lokeþ your scheldes be strong, Ȝour schaftes good and long, Ȝour saket [Lamb: Soketys] and faunnplate.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)53b/b : Of þingez infixed, som beþ iren, som spinous..som haþ a soket [Ch.(2): an holownesse; L doleam] in which entreþ þe tree.
- (c1434) Drury Wks.(CmbAdd 2830)78/131 : Cardo, child, is an harre of a dore or ellis þe soket þat þe neder ende of þe harre tre is meuyd in.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)463 : Soket [Win: Sokette], of a candylstykke or oþer lyke: Alorica, vel alarica.
- (1448) Invent.Oxford in Archaeol.J.51121 : Item, j soket argenteum deauratum pro cruce argentea.
- c1450 *Chauliac(1) (Sln 3666)48a/b : If þe tree haue gone out of þe hose [?read: hole], with a percur resseyue it & put in þe soket & be it drawen oute, soket [vr. soked] reuersed.
- (1452-3) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12222 : Pro le parlour, j candelabrum pendule de auricalco cum vj soketts.
- (1459) Invent.Fastolf(1) in Paston Letters (Add Charter 17247:Gairdner)3.171 : Item, ij candilstikkes, ij prykettes, and iiij sokettes, weiyng xxxvij unces.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)145 : Yf ȝe wyll putt yowr nose in hys wyffys sokett, ȝe xall haue forty days of pardon.
c
- (1449) MSS Beverley in HMC163 : [Red buckram bought for making a] soket [for the Greton].