sole
IPA: sˈoʊɫ
noun
- (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- (obsolete) The foot itself.
- (zoology) 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 end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- 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.
- (nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- (dialectal or obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
- (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
- A sea area, corresponding to the Sole Bank, to the north of FitzRoy
verb
- (transitive) to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
adjective
- Only.
- (law) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
- Unique; unsurpassed.
- With independent power; unfettered.
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