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soal

soal is the alternative spelling of sole.

soal is the obsolete form of sole.

Meaning of sole

Noun

sole (plural soles)

  1. The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
    Synonyms:
    planta
  2. (footwear) 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, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations, page 147
  3. (obsolete) The foot itself.
    • Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9
  4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.
    • 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...
  5. (broadly) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
  6. The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.

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Forms of soal

pluralsoals
alternative formsole

Origin of soal

From Middle English sol, sule, from Old English sol (“mud, wet sand, wallowing-place, slough, a mire or miry place”), from Proto-Germanic *sulą (“mire, mud”), from Proto-Indo-European *sūl- (“thick liquid, muck”). Compare sully. More at soil.

Questions about soal

What is soal the alternative spelling of?
Soal is the alternative spelling of sole.

Words near soal in the dictionary

  1. soaks away
  2. soaks in
  3. soaks up
  4. soakt
  5. soaky
  6. soal
  7. soals
  8. soam
  9. Soames
  10. Soameses
  11. soams

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