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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The sole. See sole.

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Examples

  • The soleus, so named from resembling a sole-fish, is a muscle of broad, flattened shape, lying beneath the gastrocnemius.

    A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

  • There is a case 10.181 in which a fisherman, having both hands engaged in drawing a net, and seeing a sole-fish about eight inches long trying to escape through the meshes of the net, seized it with his teeth.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • a case in which a fisherman, having both hands engaged in drawing a net, and seeing a sole-fish about eight inches long trying to escape through the meshes of the net, seized it with his teeth.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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