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soccage

soccage is the alternative spelling of socage.

Meaning of socage

Noun

socage (countable and uncountable, plural socages)

  1. (historical) In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.
    • […] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae.1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

Forms of soccage

pluralsoccages

Questions about soccage

What is soccage the alternative spelling of?
Soccage is the alternative spelling of socage.

Words near soccage in the dictionary

  1. Socarrases
  2. socas
  3. SOCB
  4. SOCBs
  5. socca
  6. soccage
  7. soccages
  8. soccasin
  9. soccasins
  10. soccer
  11. soccer ball

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soccage (page history and authors); socage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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