[? f. SOCK sb.3] A lamb brought up by hand; a pet-lamb. Also transf.
1838. Holloway, Prov. Dict., A sock-lamb.… A lamb brought up by hand and domesticated.
1880. Mrs. R. O’Reilly, Stories, III. 299. A sock lamb was nibbling the short grass.
1903. A. Austin, Flodden Field, III. All Ford hath, And all that is within it, save it be That sock-lamb, Margery.
