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Soke vs Moke - What's the difference?

soke | moke |

As a noun soke

is (obsolete) any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines.

soke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Any of several medieval rights, either to hold a court, or to receive fines.
  • (obsolete) A district under a particular jusridiction.

    • Related terms

    * socage * sokeland * sokeman * soken

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    moke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey.
    • (Thackeray)
  • *1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘Only a Subaltern’, Under the Deodars , Folio Society 2005, p. 68:
  • *:the Colonel [...] had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.
  • A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A black person.