socket

An opening or a cavity into which an inserted part is designed to fit.

The concave part of a joint that receives the end of a bone.

A hollow or concavity into which a part, such as the eye, fits.

To furnish with or insert into a socket.

To provide with or place in a socket.

In golf, the neck of a club into which the shaft runs.

A chuck or holder on the end of a drill-spindle having a taper-hole to receive the corresponding taper-shank of the drill or of another socket.

An opening or cavity into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else.

Specifically A small hollow tube or depression in a candlestick to hold a candle. Also called nozle.