subs. (venery).—The female pudendum: see MONOSYLLABLE. See SOCKET-MONEY.

1

  1621.  JONSON, Masque of Gypsies [GIFFORD, Works, iii. 144].

        And sounding the SOCKETS
Of simper-the-cockets.

2

  c. 1650.  BRATHWAITE, Barnaby’s Journal (1723), 93.

        Her I caught by you know what a,
Having boldly thus adventur’d,
And my Sarah’s SOCKET enter’d.

3

  BURNT TO THE SOCKET, phr. (old).—Dying (RAY).

4