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   socket

   /ˈsɒkɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a natural or artificial hollow into which something fits or in which something revolves: "the eye socket"
   • ▪ the part of the head of a golf club into which the shaft is fitted.
   • 2. an electrical device receiving a plug or light bulb to make a connection.

   verb

   • 1. place in or fit with a socket: "by then, arrowheads were normally socketed"
   • 2. old-fashioned term for shank

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘head of a spear, resembling a ploughshare’): from an Anglo-Norman French diminutive of Old French soc ‘ploughshare’, probably of Celtic origin.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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