sole

adj

1. (not-comparable)Only.

   “He saw now clearly that the sole crew of the vessel was these two dead men, and though he could not see their faces, he saw by their outstretched hands, which were all of ragged flesh, that they had been subjected to some strange exceptional process of decay.”

2. (not-comparable)Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
3. (not-comparable)Unique; unsurpassed.

   “The sole brilliance of this gem.”

4. (not-comparable)With independent power; unfettered.

   “A sole authority.”

noun

1. The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
2. The bottom of a shoe or boot.

   “The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs.”

3. (obsolete)The foot itself.

   “Hast wandred through the world now long a day;Yet ceasest not thy wearie soles to lead”

   “But the doue found no rest for the sole of her foote, and she returned vnto him into the Arke: […]”

4. Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.

   “The fishermen crowding in the cafés were also waiting for the end of the storm, when the fish, reassured, would rise to the surface after the bait. Soles, hog fish and skate were returning from their nocturnal expeditions. Day was now breaking.”

5. (broadly)A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.
6. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
7. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
8. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
9. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
10. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
11. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

    “The rudder remains to be repaired, and is unshipped for the purpose; the sole of it is entirely gone”

12. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
13. The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
14. (dialectal, obsolete)A wooden band or yoke put around the neck of an ox or cow in the stall.
15. (Northern-England, dialectal)A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.

verb

1. (transitive)To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.
2. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.

name

1. A sea area, corresponding to the Sole Bank, to the north of FitzRoy