ppl. a. [f. SOLE sb.1 or v.1] Having a sole or soles (of a specified kind). Chiefly as the second element in various parasynthetic combinations.

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  a.  Of boots, shoes, etc. (Cf. SINGLE-SOLED a.)

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1480.  Wardr. Acc. Edw. IV. (1830), 118. A pair of shoon double soled,… a pair of shoon single soled.

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1541.  in Academy (1883), 6 Oct., 231/3. For 6 payre of double sollyd showne, 4s 6d.

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1611.  Cotgr., Cothurne, a fashion of high-soled buskin vsed by the auncient Tragedians.

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1756.  [E. Thompson], Demi-Rep, 35.

        Their souls all free, not venally profuse,
With twice sol’d shoes they stamp’d it to the House.

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1760.  C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), III. 154. He then sallied out … in … his thick-soled shoes.

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1896.  H. Phelps Whitmarsh, in Strand Mag., XII. 349/1. [The diver’s boots] are leaden-soled, and weigh 32lb.

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1899.  Alice Werner, Captain of Locusts, 237. She put on her flat-soled stuff shoes.

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  b.  Of persons or animals.

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a. 1740.  Tickell, Fragm. on Hunting, 74. Such be the dog … thou mean’st to train,… Large leg’d, dry sol’d, and of protended claw.

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  c.  Of a water-wheel.

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1834–6.  Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VIII. 88/2. This wheel … must … be close boarded, or technically close soled round its circumference. Ibid. (1845), Index 307/1. Soled wheel.

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