SOCAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does socage mean? 

• SOCAGE (noun)
  The noun SOCAGE has 1 sense:

1. land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service

  Familiarity information: SOCAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("socage" is a kind of...):

service ((law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him)

 Context examples 

Above all, the owner of the soil could still hold his head high as the veritable Socman of Minstead—that is, as holding the land in free socage, with no feudal superior, and answerable to no man lower than the king.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)