Socman

Translation of "socman" into Russian

Noun

/ˈsɒk.mən/

/ˈsɑk.mən/

socman

socmen pl

socmans pl

сокмен

The socman was responsible for managing the land.

Сокмен был ответственен за управление землей.

Noun

/ˈsɒk.mən/

/ˈsɑk.mən/

A free tenant in medieval England who held land by socage, owing only fixed and customary services or rent to a lord rather than military service.

In the twelfth century, a socman might pay a yearly rent in coin instead of serving in the lord's army.

(Historical) One of the small freeholders recorded in the Domesday Book, especially in the Danelaw counties of eastern England.

The Domesday survey of 1086 lists over a thousand socmen in Lincolnshire alone.