sole

1. (anatomy) The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.Synonyms: planta

2. (footwear) The bottom of a shoe or boot.Examples: "The Caliga was a military Shoe, with a very thick Sole, tied above the instep with leather Thongs."

3. (obsolete) The foot itself.Examples: "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: […]"obsolete

4. (zoology) Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae; a true sole.Examples: "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. (by extension) A flatfish resembling those of the family Soleidae.broadly

6. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.

1. (transitive) To put a sole on a shoe or a boot.transitive

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

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

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug.UKdialectaltransitive