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Sok, n.² Also: soik, sock(e, (souk). Pl. also sox. [ME and e.m.E. sock(e (1327), sokke (Prompt. Parv.), sok (1451), OE socc, L. soccus a light shoe or slipper.] A sock or stocking.Also ? a light boot or shoe (see quot. 1531 under (2) below).See also riding-sok Riding vbl. n., Fute-sok, Leg-sok.See Index to Treas. Acc. for numerous further examples.(1) 1496 Treas. Acc. I 298.
For quhit clath to be sokkis to the King 1533 Treas. Acc. VI 179.
For half elne and ½ quartar rislis blak to be ane sok to his grace 1545 Treas. Acc. VIII 371.
For buttis spurris and sockis 1550–1 Treas. Acc. IX 473.
Coft to be sokkis to my lord Gordoun v quarteris reid Inglis stemmyng 1565–6 Treas. Acc. XI 471.
xij elnis of round holane claith to be sokis 1566–7 Treas. Acc. XII 11.
Lynnyng to be fute sokis a1570-86 Maitl. F. 206/27.
Ane fyre is fosterand for my feit With dowbill sokkis for my schone 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 234.
Ane cannone bullet dingis the revell, the spurre, and the heill of the socke and hoise of one of the horsmenis legis c1578 Maxwell Mem. I 312.
Sokis of velvett 1582 Treas. Acc. MS 101.
To fas the saidis sockis tua vnce blak silk 1593 Treas. Acc. MS 68²b.
Thrie quarteris collumbin Spanis taffetie to lyne the sockis 1594 Argyll Acc. 10 Jan.
Gold and silk pasmentis to put upone the heidis of the sockis 1599 Treas. Acc. MS 40b.
Grene Inglis stemming to be sokis for the buck hounting 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 32.
Ane wowin sok 1606 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 50.
Ȝour breikis & soikis of cullor de roy claith 1606 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A 50.
Silk to sew on the pasmentis & sew the guschettis & seimes of ȝour soikis 1621 Acts IV 625/2.
That no persoun of whatsoeuir degrie salhave pearling or ribbening vpoun thair ruffes sarkis neipkines and sokkis c1650 Spalding II 388.
He had … white sokis, and ane pair of mules on his feit(2) 1500 Treas. Acc. II 21.
For iiij pair of lynyne sokkis to the king ij s. viij d. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 144.
Quhilk wes nocht worth ane pair of auld gray sox 1530 Balmerino & L. Chart. ii 32 (see Hose n. 2 (c)).
Thre pair of blak howis wytht ane pair of blak soikks 1531 Treas. Acc. V 420.
To ane cordonare for soling of ane pare of sokkis to the king 1539 Treas. Acc. VII 261.
For small cammes to be the Kingis grace ane pair of sockis 1542 Treas. Acc. VIII 68.
For twa elnes half elne bukrem to be twa pair of sokkis to his grace 1543 Treas. Acc. VIII 232.
Fyve quarteris trailȝe to be his grace ane pair of sockis 1563 Linlithgow Sheriff Ct. 23 June.
Soukis 1571–2 Canongate Ct. Bk. 355.
Ane pair blew sokkis 1575 Dumfries B. Ct. 12 Oct.
Ane pair of soks & spurris 1579 Inv. Wardrobe 282.
Nyne pair of leg sokis 1589 Treas. Acc. MS 158.
Pasvillour serge to be a pair of lang sokkis 1590 Treas. Acc. MS 213.
Argentie gray serge to be a pair of lang sokis 1596 Crim. Trials I ii 391.
Twa pair of stemming sokis 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI 137b.
Ane pair of claith sokis

b. Sok-hede, ? the top or upper part of a sock or stocking, ? a footless sock.1598 Treas. Acc. MS 85 (see *Larikinis n. pl.). 1605 Tailor's Acc. Bk. 32b.
Pirnie canuas to be ȝour … soik heidis 1612 Edinb. Test. XLVII 132.
Thrie pair of sok heidis at vj s. viij d. the pair 1627 Edinb. Test. LIV 167b.
xxxiij pair of brouderit sokheidis at xxx s. the paire 1647 Caldwell P. 100.
Twa elnes of Holland claith to be sockheids 1650 Culross I 236.
That they … wer all knighted after the order of the garter by that prophane man James Broune … and that James Broune wave all his sockheads [etc.]