Now dial. Also 1 soc, 4 sok. [OE. soc (also ʓesoc), f. the weak grade of súcan to suck, = MDu. soc, zoc suck (Kilian sock, WFris. sok, the suck of water in the wake of a ship).]
† 1. Suck (given to a child). Obs.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gen. xxi. 8. On þone dæʓ þe man þæt cild fram soce Sarra ateah.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., C. 391. Sesez childer of her sok.
1382. Wyclif, Isaiah xi. 8. [The child] that shal be taken awei fro sok, or wenyd.
2. dial. Wet or moisture collecting in, or percolating through, soil. (Cf. SOAK sb. 2 b.)
1799. [A. Young], Agric. Lincoln., 15. The sock or soak among the silt is sometimes brackish.
1807. Britton, Lincolnshire, 560. Entering the fens, it leaves a portion of its waters and sludge or sock.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Sock, the superficial moisture of land not properly drained off.
1851. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., XII. II. 293. Throughout all the marshes and many of the fens are found those subterranean currents called the soak or sock. Ibid., 305. A sock-dyke or drain.
b. The drainage of a dunghill; liquid manure.
1790. W. H. Marshall, Rur. Econ. Midl., II. 442. Sock; the drainage of a farm yard: hence sock-pit, the receptacle of such drainage.
1896. in Eng. Dial. Dict., There was no sock above the outlet.
