Also 7 soccate. [f. SOCKET sb.] trans. To place in, or fit with, a socket.

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1533.  Lett. & P. Hen. VIII., VI. 642. For mendyng and sockettyng newe Cressytts.

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1665.  J. Webb, Stone-Heng (1725), 214. A Pair of Shears composed of two Masts, socketted or mortaised into a Plank.

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1761.  Phil. Trans., LV. 248. They must be socketed before he can examine [etc.].

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1823.  Sir C. Bell, in Phil. Trans., CXIII. 173. In creatures where the eye is socketed in a cup of cartilage and cannot retract.

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1869.  Rankine, Machine & Hand-tools, P 5, These dies … are … socketed into the resisting head.

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1888.  Athenæum, 16 June, 764/3. Five stone bases socketed for wooden uprights.

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  Hence Socketing vbl. sb.

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1806.  Sir C. Bell, Anat. & Phil. Expression (1872), 41. The socketing of the long canine teeth. Ibid. (1833), Hand (1834), 88. The socketing of the teeth in the jaws.

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