See Also: soken(dictionary)

soken (iou)



soken noun. See also SUCKEN.
[Old English socn = Old Norse sokn, Gothic sokns search, inquiry, from Germanic.]
An attack, an assault. rare. Only in OE.
(Habitual) resort to or visiting of a place. OE-LME.
b. spec. Resort of local tenants etc. to a particular mill to have their corn ground; the right of the mill to such custom. Cf. SOKE 3. LME-L16.
= SOKE 1. OE-ME.
Hist. = SOKE 2. OE.