sukka — meaning in English

English meaning

• mantle verb To cover, cloak, or conceal something.
• sock noun A knitted covering for the foot and lower leg, worn inside a shoe.
• stocking noun A close-fitting garment covering the foot and leg, usually made of thin, stretchy fabric.

Senses

sukka is used for these senses in English:

• mantle A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.) [from 19th c.]
• stocking A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.

mantle — full definition

1. verb To cover, cloak, or conceal something.
2. noun The layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
3. noun A position or responsibility passed on to someone, or a loose cloak.

sock — full definition

1. noun A knitted covering for the foot and lower leg, worn inside a shoe.
2. verb To hit someone hard.

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