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Definition sole

Etymology 1

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English s?l (“a rope, cord, line, bond, rein, door-hinge, necklace, collar”), from Proto-Germanic *sail?, *sailaz (“rope, cable”), *sail? (“noose, rein, bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *sey- (“to tie to, tie together”). Cognate with Scots sale, saile (“halter, collar”), Dutch zeel (“rope, cord, strap”), German Seil (“rope, cable, wire”), Icelandic seil (“a string, line”). Non-Germanic cognate include Albanian dell (“sinew, vein”).

Noun

sole (plural soles)

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

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old English sol (“mire, miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sul? (“mire, wallow, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?l- (“thick liquid”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian soal (“ditch”), Dutch sol (“water and mud filled pit”), German Suhle (“mire, wallow”), Norwegian saula, søyla (“mud puddle”). More at soil.

Noun

sole (plural soles)

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

Etymology 3

From earlier sowle (“to pull by the ear”). Origin unknown. Perhaps from sow (“female pig”) +‎ -le, as in the phrase "take a sow by the wrong ear", or from Middle English sole (“rope”). See above.

Verb

sole (third-person singular simple present soles, present participle soling, simple past and past participle soled)

  1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

Etymology 4

From Middle English sole, soule, from Old French sol, soul (“alone”), from Latin s?lus (“alone, single, solitary, lonely”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (reflexive pronoun). Perhaps related to Old Latin sollus (“whole, complete”), from Proto-Indo-European *solw-, *salw-, *sl?w- (“safe, healthy”). More at save.

Adjective

sole (not comparable)

  1. only
  2. (law) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

Etymology 5

From Middle English sole, soole, from Old English. Reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old French sole, from Vulgar Latin *sola ("bottom of the shoe", also "flatfish"), from Latin solea (“sandal, bottom of the shoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *swol- (“sole”). Cognate with Dutch zool (“sole, tread”), German Sohle (“sole, insole, bottom, floor”), Danish sål (“sole”), Icelandic sóli (“sole, outsole”), Gothic ????? (sulja, “sandal”). Related to Latin solum (“bottom, ground, soil”). More at soil.

Noun

sole (plural soles)

  1. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
  2. (clothing) The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  3. (obsolete) The foot itself.
  4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
  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.
  6. (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
Verb

sole (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)

Results 251 Words with the letters SOLE

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6 letter words with the letters SOLE 
AMOLES 10
ASLOPE 10
AZOLES 16
BELOWS 13
BLOKES 14
BLOUSE 11
BOGLES 12
BOTELS 10
BOULES 11
BOWELS 13
CELLOS 11
CELOMS 13
CEORLS 10
CLONES 11
CLOSED 11
CLOSER 10
CLOSES 10
CLOSET 10
CLOVES 14
CLOZES 19
COBLES 13
COLEUS 11
COLIES 10
CRESOL 10
DHOLES 10
DOWELS 11
ELBOWS 13
ELOPES 10
EXTOLS 14
FELONS 11
FILOSE 10
FOLLES 11
GLOBES 12
GLOVES 13
GLOZES 18
GOLEMS 12
GOSPEL 12
HELLOS 10
HOUSEL 10
HOVELS 13
HOYLES 11
JOSTLE 16
JOULES 17
KELSON 12
KETOLS 11
LEMONS 11
LOAVES 11
LOCOES 10
LODGES 10
LONGES 10
LOPERS 10
LOUPES 11
LOVERS 11
LOWERS 10
LOWEST 10
MELONS 11
MODELS 11
MOHELS 12
MOLEST 10
MOLIES 10
MORELS 10
MORSEL 10
MOTELS 10
NOBLES 11
NOVELS 12
OBELUS 11
OBOLES 10
ODYLES 10
OLEUMS 11
OLIVES 11
OSCULE 11
OSMOLE 10
OUZELS 17
OVULES 12
OWLETS 10
PEPLOS 13
PILOSE 10
POLEIS 10
POLERS 10
PROLES 10
ROBLES 10
ROWELS 10
SCOLEX 17
SELDOM 11
SHOVEL 13
SLEAZO 16
SLOPED 11
SLOPER 10
SLOPES 10
SLOVEN 12
SLOWED 11
SLOWER 10
SOCLES 10
SOLACE 10
SOLELY 10
SOLEMN 11
SOLGEL 10
SOLVED 12
SOLVER 11
SOLVES 11
SPLORE 10
TOWELS 10
VOILES 11
VOLTES 11
VOWELS 14
VOXELS 18
WHOLES 12
WOLVES 14
XYLOSE 16
YODELS 10
YODLES 10
YOKELS 13
5 letter words with the letters SOLE 
4 letter words with the letters SOLE 
LOSE 5
OLES 5
SLOE 5
SOLE 5
3 letter words with the letters SOLE 
ELS 4
OES 3
OLE 4
OSE 3
SEL 4
SOL 4
2 letter words with the letters SOLE 
EL 3
ES 2
LO 3
OE 2
OS 2
SO 2

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