[ad. It. zoccolo.] = prec.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., I. Zocle, is a Square Member in Architecture, being lower than its Breadth, which serves to support a Pillar…. Continued Zocle, is a kind of continued Pedestal, on which a Structure is raised, but hath no Base, or Cornish.
1723. Chambers, trans. Le Clerc’s Archit., I. 54. Vignola terminates these Pillars with a plain Zocle.
1870. Rock, Text. Fabr., II. 334. Two little naked winged boys standing on a highly elaborate zocle.
