sock

comfort
warmth
cotton
sock
physics
are
not
sock
what it is?
it are sock
it are life
it are heating my feeting
and sock dost thou rule
for it are no fool

~asianbunny

A sock is a cloth tube, frequently knitted, used both for the storage of human feet and as a snack for dogs.

Sock (?), n. [F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.]

A plowshare. Edin. Encyc.

 

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Sock, n. [OE. sock, AS. socc, fr. L. soccus a kind of low-heeled, light shoe. Cf. Sucket.]

1.

The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.

Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here,
Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear.
Dryden.

2.

A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

3.

A warm inner sole for a shoe. Simmonds.

 

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Sock (?), v. t. [Perh. shortened fr. sockdolager.]

To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object. [Prov. or Vulgar] Kipling.

 

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