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▪ I. socle (ˈsɒk(ə)l, ‖ sɔkl) Also 8 zocle, soccle. [a. F. socle, ad. It. zoccolo (also a clog or patten), repr. L. socculus, dim. of soccus sock n.1 So G. sockel († socle, zocle).] 1. A low plain block or plinth serving as a pedestal to a statue, column, vase, etc.; also, a plain plinth forming a foundation for a wall.
1704Harris Lex. Techn. I, Zocle is a square member in Architecture,..which serves to support a Pillar [etc.]. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 39/1 The first Ground⁓work of your Wall, and the Soccles, which are call'd Foundations too. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Pedestal, In the Base are a Plinth for a Socle, over that a Tore carved. 1797T. Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. III. lxxxviii. (ed. 2) 455 The pillars stand upon socles. 1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 229/1 An order of square pillars..raised not on a stylobate but merely a socle. 1880Nature XXI. 265 A high round pedestal formed by the foaming sea-water, like the socle of a monument. 2. ‘One of the ridges or elevations which support the tentacles and sense-bodies of some worms’ (Cent. Dict. 1891). ▪ II. socle obs. form of suckle v. |