sock Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee
  2. noun a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
    windsock; wind sock; air sock; wind sleeve; drogue; wind cone; air-sleeve.
  3. verb hit hard
    whap; bop; whop; bonk; bash.

WordNet

Sock noun
Etymology
F. soc, LL. soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.
Definitions
  1. A plowshare. Edin. Encyc.
Sock noun
Etymology
OE. sock, AS. socc, fr. L. soccus a kind of low-heeled, light shoe. Cf. Sucket.
Definitions
  1. The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a sumbol of comedy, of the comic drams, 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.

Webster 1913