[f. SOLE v. + -ER1.] One who soles boots or shoes.

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1884.  L. Gronlund, Co-operat. Commw., viii. (1886), 173. The operatives in a shoe-factory … the ‘tappers,’ the ‘solers,’ the ‘finishers.’

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1902.  Chas. Fielding Marsh, in Longm. Mag., Dec., 150. Some were only eyelet-hole makers, others were sole-peggers, or tongue-sewers, or solers and heelers.

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