soclen.
/ˈsəʊkl/, /ˈsɒkl/, U.S. /ˈsɑkəl/ 1. A low plain block or plinth serving as a pedestal to a statue, column, vase, etc.; also, a plain plinth forming a foundation for a wall.
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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Zocle is a square member in Architecture,..which serves to support a Pillar [etc.].
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 39/1 The first Ground~work of your Wall, and the Soccles, which are call'd Foundations too.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pedestal In the Base are a Plinth for a Socle, over that a Tore carved.
1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxxviii. 455 The pillars stand upon socles.
1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 229/1 An order of square pillars..raised not on a stylobate but merely a socle.
1880 Nature 15 Jan. 265/2 A high round pedestal, formed by the foaming sea-water, like the socle of a monument.
2. ‘One of the ridges or elevations which support the tentacles and sense-bodies of some worms’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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