Soiled vs Soled - What's the difference?
soiled | soled |
(sole)
(dialectal, or, obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.
only
(legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
The bottom of a shoe or boot.
* Arbuthnot
(obsolete) The foot itself.
* Bible, Genesis viii. 9
* Spenser
Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae .
The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
# The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
# The bottom of a furrow.
# The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
# (military) The bottom of an embrasure.
# (nautical) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
(mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
As verbs the difference between soiled and soled
is that soiled is (soil) while soled is (sole).As an adjective soiled
is dirty.soled
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(head)Anagrams
* * * *sole
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 3
From earlier . See above.Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Verb
(sol)Etymology 4
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).Adjective
(-)Etymology 5
From (etyl) (m), (m), from Old English. Reinforced by (etyl), (etyl) sole, from . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole , tied above the instep.
- The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
- Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.
- (Totten)