Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds lands or tenements by socage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, law, obsolete One who holds
lands ortenements bysocage ; asocager .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance -- the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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The socman sprang back, looking to left and to right for some stick or stone which might serve him for weapon; but finding none, he turned and ran at the top of his speed for the house, blowing the while upon a shrill whistle.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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The socman sprang back, looking to left and to right for some stick or stone which might serve him for weapon; but finding none, he turned and ran at the top of his speed for the house, blowing the while upon a shrill whistle.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance -- the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance -- the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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The socman sprang back, looking to left and to right for some stick or stone which might serve him for weapon; but finding none, he turned and ran at the top of his speed for the house, blowing the while upon a shrill whistle.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance -- the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!
The White Company 1890
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The socman sprang back, looking to left and to right for some stick or stone which might serve him for weapon; but finding none, he turned and ran at the top of his speed for the house, blowing the while upon a shrill whistle.
The White Company 1890
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"My brother Simon Edricson is socman there, and I go to bide with him for a while.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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"My brother Simon Edricson is socman there, and I go to bide with him for a while.
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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