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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

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 Peter Anthony Motteux

Still it was a flexible material and was used, the foreman told Peter, for soling women’s shoes.

From The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett

Seldom does the cobbler take up with the new-fangled way of soling shoes, and seldom does the artisan willingly take up with new methods in his trade.

From My Life and Work by Henry Ford

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 Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

The Soling match racing course was framed by the Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2015

In many parts of the country – as documentary filmmaker Cevin Soling notes in “The War On Kids” — they already are.

From Forbes ● Dec. 18, 2012

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