Definition of "socman" []

• One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager. (noun)

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• "Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance -- the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!"
• "The socman sprang back, looking to left and to right for some stick or stone which might serve him for weapon; but finding none, he turned and ran at the top of his speed for the house, blowing the while upon a shrill whistle."
• ""My brother Simon Edricson is socman there, and I go to bide with him for a while."