Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Originally, an open gallery or balcony at the top of a house, exposed to the sun; later, any upper room, loft, or garret.
- noun An elevated chamber in a church from which to watch the lamps burning before the altars.
- noun A story of a house. See the quotation.
- noun In mining. a platform or resting-place. See
ladder-sollar and air-sollar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover, or provide with, a sollar.
- noun obsolete See
solar , n. - noun (Mining) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
solar , or garret room. - noun mining A
platform in ashaft , especially one of those between the series ofladders in a shaft. - verb transitive To cover, or provide with, a sollar.
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Examples
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Energy fuel power etc. Suggests that wind mills, sollar power and hydroelectric energy cant meet our future demands.
REVIEW: The Bottomless Well by Peter W. Huber & Mark P. Mills 2006
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As he climbed up or down the dripping ladders, descending from sollar to sollar towards the level where he worked, he would set his teeth grimly that he might not curse aloud -- an oath underground being an invitation to the Evil One -- but in his heart the muffled curses were audible enough.
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"Nay, they might have been venturesome and gone down by ladders, same as the old ones used to be from sollar to sollar."
Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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"What's a sollar?" said Gwyn, more for the sake of saying something than from a desire to know.
Sappers and Miners The Flood beneath the Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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I have material to build the sollar collector, I bought a 50 gallon gas water heater, I've got some 20 solenoid valves, and a 1/2 HP water pump.
unknown title indel 2009
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The lady, going up on to the tower and turning to the north, began to repeat the words given her by the scholar, who, coming quietly into the tower awhile after, little by little removed the ladder, which led to the sollar where she was, and after awaited that which she should do and say.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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