Soling

vbl. sb. Also 5 solynge, 6–7 soll-, 6 sowling; 7 sooling. [f. SOLE sb.¹ or v.¹]

  1.  The action of putting soles upon boots or shoes; freq. = resoling.

1476.  Maldon Court-Rolls (Bundle 10, no. 6), Propter vampeyeyng et solynge de vn payre de botys, xiid.

1547.  in J. H. Glover, Kingsthorpiana (1883), 102. The same day for the solyng of my shoys, v d.

1573.  in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 201. The making and solling of vi paier of startopps.

1653.  Urquhart, Rabelais, I. viii. For the soling of them were made use of eleven hundred hides.

  attrib.  1571.  in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 142. For sowling lether.

1629.  Leather, 12. The principall and strongest, which might otherwise serue both for sooling leather, and vpper leather.

  2.  A sole or foundation laid down in the making of roads over boggy or marshy ground.

1838.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., I. 383/2. Upon this trunking is to be laid a soling, consisting of a mixed mass of prepared earth and gravel. Ibid. (1843), VI. 274/1. The soling should not be laid on, until one, and in some cases two seasons, after the grips have been opened.

  3.  Golf. (See SOLE v.¹ 3.)

1909.  Vaile, Mod. Golf, 27. Bad soling and ignorance of the principles of proper soling strike at the very root of the game.