free socage

free socage

noun
Medieval History. land held by a tenant who rendered certain honorable and nonservile duties to his lord.
Also called free and common socage.
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Free socage is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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