socketed

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They kept digging and found a hoard of other artifacts, including socketed ax heads, winged ax heads, cake ingots and blade fragments made of bronze.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2021

In the Positano brochures, they tell you about the view: the impossible blue of the sea, the colorful buildings socketed like Legos into the craggy hillside, the narrow alleyways of shops and restaurants.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2019

Did it require special equipment, perhaps a rope woven around short lengths of bamboo that could be covertly socketed together?

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2018

Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish.

From Time Magazine Archive

The upper are socketed into the end of the pestle, and the lower, when a little blunted by use, are not unlike the jaw-teeth of the mammoth, with their studs.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson