socage

1. 1.

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

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Other forms of socage

plural

socages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about socage

What does socage mean?

socage means "land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service".

How many syllables are in socage?

socage has 2 syllables: so-cage. The stress falls on "so".

Is socage a common word?

socage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.