ppl. a. [f. SOCKET sb. or v.] Fitted with or placed in a socket.
1649. in Archaeol., X. 404. Two whyte marble colums or pillers, soccated in two foote stepps of black marble.
1713. Warder, True Amazons (ed. 2), 8. His Tongue being not long enough to reach the Honey out of the socketed Flowers.
1853. Ruskin, Stones Ven., III. App. x. 246. So that the socketed arrangement is not seen.
1871. Archaeol., XLIII. 446. Two celts, one at least socketed, were found at Hagbourn,… with a socketed spear-head of bronze.
1877. Rosenthal, Muscles & Nerves, 95. All these tensions must combine to press together the socketed parts.
