1. Noun
An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
2. Noun
Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
3. Noun
a bony hollow into which a structure fits
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