sock

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A short stocking reaching a point between the ankle and the knee.
2. n. Meteorology A windsock.
3. n. A light shoe worn by comic actors in ancient Greek and Roman plays.
4. n. Comic drama; comedy: "He . . . knew all niceties of the sock and buskin” ( Byron).
5. v. To provide with socks.
6. sock away Informal To put (money) away in a safe place for future use.
7. sock in To close to air traffic: fog that socked in the airport.
8. v. To hit or strike forcefully; punch.
9. v. To deliver a blow.
10. n. A hard blow or punch.
11. idiom. sock it to (someone) Slang To deliver a forceful comment, reprimand, or physical blow to someone else.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A light shoe worn by the ancient actors of comedy; hence, comedy, in distinction from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
2. n. A knitted or woven covering for the foot, shorter than a stocking; a stocking reaching but a short distance above the ankle.
3. n. A sandal, wooden patten, or clog for the feet, worn by the friars called Recollets.
4. n. A plowshare; a movable share slipped over the sole of a plow.
5. To sew up.
6. n. Same as soke.
7. To throw; especially, to hurl or send with swiftness and violence: as, to sock a ball.
8. To hit hard; pitch into: as, to sock one in the eye.
9. With an impersonal it, to strike a hard blow; give a drubbing: as, sock it to him!
10. n. A dialectal form of sog.

Wiktionary

1. n. A knitted or woven covering for the foot
2. n. A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors
3. n. A violent blow, punch
4. n. A shortened version of (Internet) sock puppet
5. v. transitive To hit or strike violently
6. v. intransitive To deliver a blow

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A plowshare.
2. n. The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
3. n. A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.
4. n. A warm inner sole for a shoe.
5. v. Prov. or Vulgar To hurl, drive, or strike violently; -- often with it as an object.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee
2. v. hit hard
3. n. a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind