Meaning

noun hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee

noun a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

verb hit hard

originFrom Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language. Beekes compares Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬑𐬀 (haxa, “sole of the foot”). Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok…

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