- socket
- socket [säk′it]n.[ME soket, spearhead shaped like a plowshare < Anglo-Fr, dim. < OFr soc, plowshare < Gaul * soccus, plowshare, orig., pig's snout (hence, that which roots out) < IE * suk-, var. of base * su-, SOW1]a hollow piece or part into which something fits [the socket for a light bulb, of the eye, of the hipbone, etc.]vt.to furnish with or fit into a socket
English World dictionary. V. Neufeldt. 2014.