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Definition of 'sole'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
(dialectal|or|obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).
Alternative forms
* (l)
Noun
( en-noun)
(dialectal|Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
Etymology 3
From earlier . See above.
Alternative forms
* (l), (l)
Verb
(sol)
To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).
Adjective
(-)
only
(legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
Etymology 5
From (etyl) (m), (m), from Old English. Reinforced by (etyl), (etyl) sole, from . More at (l).
Noun
( en-noun)
The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
The bottom of a shoe or boot.
* Arbuthnot
- The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole , tied above the instep.
(obsolete) The foot itself.
* Bible, Genesis viii. 9
- The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
* Spenser
- Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.
Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae .
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
# The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
# The bottom of a furrow.
# The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
# (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
# (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- (Totten)
(mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Synonyms
* (bottom of the foot''): planta (''medical term )
Derived terms
* insole
* midsole
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Verb
(sol)
to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
Derived terms
* resole
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