Definition of "sole"

sole¹

/səʊl/

adjective
not comparable
1. Only.
  Quotations
  He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.
  1905, H. G. Wells, The Empire of the Ants
2. (law) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
3. Unique; unsurpassed.
4. With independent power; unfettered.

sole²

/səʊl/

noun
plural soles
1. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
2. (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  Quotations
  The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs.
  1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations, page 147
3. (obsolete) The foot itself.
  Quotations
  Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 9
  But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: […]
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 8:9
4. (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
  Quotations
  The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.
  1952, Nikos Kazantzakis, chapter 1, in Carl Wildman, transl., Zorba the Greek, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, translation of Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Víos kai politeía tou Aléxi Zormpá], page 3
5. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
  1. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
  2. The bottom of a furrow.
  3. The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
  4. The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  5. (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
  6. (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
    Quotations
    The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone
    1842, The Nautical Magazine
  7. (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
6. (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
verb
third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled
1. (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)

sole³

/səʊl/

noun
plural soles
1. (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

sole⁴

/səʊl/

noun
plural soles
1. (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

sole⁵

/səʊl/

verb
third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled
1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

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sole3

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