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Only. +

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

Unique; unsurpassed.

With independent power; unfettered.

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

(bottom of footwear) (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.

(foot, obsoletely) (obsolete) The foot itself.

(a fish, Solea solea) (fish) (species), a flatfish of the family (family); a true sole.

(a fish) (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family (family).

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.

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

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

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