Bible Dictionaries
Socket

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.

(2):

(n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Socket'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/socket.html. 1828.