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.

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  • noun UK, law, obsolete One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.

Etymologies

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See socage.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • "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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