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sholes

sholes is the plural of shole.

Meaning of shole

Noun

shole (plural sholes)

  1. A wooden block plank fixed beneath an object, such as the rudder of a vessel, to give support or protect from damage.

Proper noun capitalized: Sholes

Sholes (countable and uncountable, plural Sholeses)

  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Wayne County, Nebraska, United States.

Forms of sholes

pluralSholeses

Origin of sholes

Perhaps an altered spelling of Scholes.

Questions about sholes

What does sholes mean?
Sholes means a surname.
What is sholes the plural of?
Sholes is the plural of shole.
What part of speech is sholes?
Sholes is a proper noun.

Words near sholes in the dictionary

  1. Sholars
  2. sholas
  3. shold
  4. sholde
  5. shole
  6. sholes
  7. Sholeses
  8. Sholette
  9. sholicon
  10. Sholing
  11. Sholinghur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sholes (page history and authors); Sholes (page history and authors); shole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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