sole UK /səʊl/US /soʊl/adjective 4noun 16verb 2forms 3 adjective4 •only, and no other person or thing of the same sort •With independent power; unfettered.A sole authority. •Unique; unsurpassed.The sole brilliance of this gem. •Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed. noun16 •The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. •The bottom of a shoe or boot.The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs. — 1727 •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 bottom of an embrasure. •A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone — 1842 •The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat •The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes. •The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts. •Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole. •A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae. •(dialect, Northern-England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water. •(no longer used) The foot itself.Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead — 1590 •(dialect, no longer used) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall. verb2 •To put a sole on a shoe or a boot. •(dialect, UK) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. formssoled · soling · soles
