soling
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of soling
Example Sentences
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But instead of soling the clubhead as usual, set it in front of the ball.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 8, 2018
“Huh,” said he, “his shoes need soling, that’s one sure thing.”
From Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
For the soling of them were made use of eleven hundred hides of brown cows, shapen like the tail of a keeling.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
If you know naught of soling, I understand nothing of sausages; you, who cut bad leather on the slant to make it look stout and deceive the country yokels.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
"The boots want soling," cried the sick sailor in a deep voice.
From The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories by Cannan, Gilbert
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