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Only. +

(law) Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed. +

Unique; unsurpassed.

With independent power; unfettered.

(anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. +

(footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

(obsolete) The foot itself.

(zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.

(by extension) A flatfish resembling those 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 end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.

(part of the hoof of a horse) 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.

(nautical) The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat

(mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.

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

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

(UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.