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Sole vs Tole - What's the difference?

sole | tole |

As a verb sole

is .

As a noun tole is

sheet metal or tole can be .

sole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal, Northern England) A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

    • Etymology 3

    From earlier . See above.

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Verb

    (sol)
  • To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • only
  • (legal) unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.

    • Etymology 5

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from Old English. Reinforced by (etyl), (etyl) sole, from . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
  • The bottom of a shoe or boot.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • The caliga was a military shoe, with a very thick sole , tied above the instep.
  • (obsolete) The foot itself.
  • * Bible, Genesis viii. 9
    • The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
  • * Spenser
    • Hast wandered through the world now long a day, / Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.
  • 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.
  • (Totten)
  • (mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
    • Synonyms
    * (bottom of the foot''): planta (''medical term )
    Derived terms
    * insole * midsole *

    Verb

    (sol)
  • to put a sole on (a shoe or boot)
    • Derived terms
    * resole

    Anagrams

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    tole

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded
  • (uncommon) tola (unit of mass)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) stem *tyll, related to .

    Alternative forms

    * (Etymology 3)

    Verb

  • To entice.
    • It is often necessary to tole a big stag, to induce him to leave the hind ...
  • * 1693 , '', 1797, ''The works of John Locke Esq , Volume III, page 52,
    • And thus the young Soldier is to be train’d on to the Warfare of Life ; wherein Care is to be taken that more things be not repre?ented as dangerous than really are ?o ; and then, that whatever you ob?erve him to be more frighted at than he ?hould, you be ?ure to tole him on to by in?en?ible Degrees, till he at la?t, quitting his Fears, ma?ters the Difficulty, and comes off with Applau?e.
  • To allure.
  • To attract.

    • Anagrams

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