Sokes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 31 anagrams from letters in sokes (ekoss).
1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-Latin soca Old English sōcn attack, right of prosecution, jurisdiction (see soken); akin to sake1
In the meantime eight or ten men have gathered the amole and soke.
The soke in the hundred courts belongs to the king and the earl.
Over this man the Saint has sake and soke and commendation with all custom.
In 1279, goldsmith William Farrington bought the soke of the ward containing the goldsmiths' shops.
The soke and ward of Aldgate was then bounded as I have before showed.
His predecessor had only the commendation of this, and Harold had the soke.
One contrasts the soke of the manor with the inland and with the berewicks.
If so, then there may have been a time when commendation and soke were all one.
In the "Liberty of the soke" the bishop of the diocese had his court, presided over by the bailiff as his deputy.
These are modern accretions to the soke of Horncastle, made in the early years of the 19th century.