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soling

American  
[soh-ling] / ˈsoʊ lɪŋ /

noun

  1. pitching.


Soling British  
/ ˈsəʊlɪŋ /

noun

  1. a type of keelboat, designed to be crewed by three people

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Etymology

Origin of soling

sole 2 + -ing 1

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

"I wonder if we can't get something out of the lumber company," mused the younger brother, as he gazed meditatively at his boots, which were sadly in need of soling and heeling.

From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Stratemeyer, Edward

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

A friendly cobbler had taught him how to make boots and shoes, new soling and mending; and he once had the courage to suspend over his door the sign of a shoemaker's shop.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

The other evening while Ellen and I were developing films he was soling a pair of shoes.

From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Barrow, Katherine Mary