soke BrE

The title of soke is usually designated from one leader to the next.

However, as a result of intervening development and a new town project, this has a much larger population than the Soke had.

The manor was held directly of the King, forming a peculiar jurisdiction or soke.

"Boys are drawn to water," said a police inspector, John Soke.

It was part of the soke of Rothley from the tenth century.

In Tonga they have a same but different stick dance called Soke.

The word "soke", however, appears more commonly and appears to have had a wider range of meaning.

Machida Soke believes that practicing martial arts is completely different from doing sports.

As a result of the soke system, the medieval miller was often the subject of suspicion and distrust.

Is this some kind of soke?

In 1948 the boundaries of the constituency were adjusted to correspond to those of the Soke and they remained much the same until 1970.

Each with their own soke.

The parish was also in the Bolingbroke Soke.

Rutland was an anomalous territory or soke, associated with Nottinghamshire, but it eventually became considered the smallest county.

Among the privileges claimed by the abbot as early as the 13th century was that of having a prison for felons taken in the Soke.

Nakagawa Shiryo Shinichi is generally considered the last soke.

The soke belongs to Repton.

There are no known dojo of the Soke and Sodenke lines outside of Japan.

In the 13th century the village became a "Soke", which meant it was independent of the local Hundred Court at Barford.

Ordnance survey map showing Aldermaston Soke and course of the Roman road, at www.streetmap.co.uk.

Historians generally suppose they bore the rank of "sokemen" because they belonged within a lord's soke or jurisdiction.

Soke used in place-names:

The rights included sake and soke, or the right to command dues from the land, and the right to levy tolls.

The right is described in full as pit and gallows, sake and soke, toll, team, and infangthief.

Machida Soke was born in 1932, and was taught martial arts since he was 3 years old from his father and grandfather.