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SOLED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does soled mean?
• SOLED (adjective)
The adjective SOLED has 1 sense:
1. having a sole or soles especially as specified; used in combination
Familiarity information: SOLED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a sole or soles especially as specified; used in combination
Context example:
rubber-soled
Antonym:
soleless (having no sole)
Context examples
His appearance,—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his pocket.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I soled my shoes with wood, which I cut from a tree, and fitted to the upper-leather; and when this was worn out, I supplied it with the skins of Yahoos dried in the sun.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I have rubber-soled tennis shoes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They gazed awhile in admiration at my strange uncouth dress; my coat made of skins, my wooden-soled shoes, and my furred stockings; whence, however, they concluded, I was not a native of the place, who all go naked.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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