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    Slade (?), n. [AS. sld.]
    1. A little dell or valley; a flat piece of low, moist ground. [Obs.] Drayton.

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    2. The sole of a plow.

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    Sole (sōl), n. [AS. sole, fr. L. soolea (or rather an assumed L. sola), akin to solumround, soil, sole of the foot.  Cf. Exile, Saloon, Soil earth, Sole the fish.]
    1. The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.

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    The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Gen. viii. 9.

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    Hast wandered through the world now long a day,

    Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. Spenser.

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    2. The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.

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    The “caliga” was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep. Arbuthnot.

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    3. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing. Specifially: (a) (Agric.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow. (b) (Far.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts. (c) (Fort.) The bottom of an embrasure. (d) (Naut.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel. Totten. (e) (Mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.

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    Sole leather, thick, strong, used for making the soles of boots and shoes, and for other purposes.

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