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socetus

socetus [ME, OF soket; cf. socus], artefact shaped like a ploughshare: a sort of iron implement, ? peg or stake. b spearhead. a 1334 in ij sokett' de ferro emptis pro fald' pichand' in estate (Clare, Suff) MinAc 992/22; 1411 de ‥ v sokect', vij rest' pro frenis Ac. Foreign 45D.  b c1325 de v hastis sine sokett' LTR Ac 15 r. 42 (cf. M. Par. Maj. V 319: s1252 fragmentum lancee ‥ brevem formam habens vomeris, unde vulgariter vomerulus vocatur, Gallice vero soket).

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