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- noun Plural form of
soal .
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Examples
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Draw them and wash them clean, then have a pint of fair water with as much white-wine, some wine vinegar & salt; when the pan or kettle boils, put in the soals with a clove or two, slic't ginger, and some large mace; being boil'd and cold, serve them with the spices, some of the gravy they were boil'd in, slic't lemon, and lemon-peel.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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The floor of the world is filthy, the mud of Mammon eats up all your upper leathers, and we are all become sad soals.
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893
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The winter moccasins are of dressed buffaloe-skin, the hair being worn inwards, and soaled with thick elk-skin parchment: those for summer are of deer or elk-skin, dressed without the hair, and with soals of elk-skin.
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I then sent them four pair of small soals, & should be glad to be certain of their arriving in good time, but I have heard nothing about them since, & had rather hear nothing than Evil.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796
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Another, is to choak and dry them with smoak of _galbanum_, shoo-soals, hair; and some affirm that planting the pionie near them, is a certain remedy; but there is no remedy so facile, as the burning them off with small wisps of dry straw, which in a moment rids you.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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It’z de dredid Supr Goste Kitteh, hu visets kittehs wen dere soals iz in danjur!
OH NOES! MY SOUUULLL!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Here they all repaired their moccasins, and put on double soals to protect them from the prickly pear and from the sharp points of earth which have been formed by the trampling of the buffaloe during the late rains: this of itself is sufficient to render the portage disagreeable to one who had no burden; but as the men are loaded as heavily as their strength will permit, the crossing is really painful: some are limping with the soreness of their feet, others are scarcely able to stand for more than a few minutes from the heat and fatigue: they are all obliged to halt and rest frequently, and at almost every stopping place they fall and many of them are asleep in an instant; yet no one complains and they go on with great cheerfulness.
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White's rie in the beginning of harvest, 1661, and that she had broad soals and trampit down more nor any of the rest '. [
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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