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A door latch, or sneck. [Prov. Eng.]

is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Dryden.

Having a socket. Dawkins.

The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]

The planking from the waterways up to the port sills. Totten.

Same as Chain wheel.

A stockade. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.

A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel. Jer. Taylor.

A small, broad-headed nail. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

res twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller.

A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

A cucking stool; a tumbrel. Cowell.

s foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt.

One who trinkets. [Obs.]

Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare. [Obs.] Tucket sonance, the sound of the tucket. [Obs.] Let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount. Shak.

A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices.