single-soled, a.
[f. single a. 19. Cf. single-sole in attrib. use, s.v. single a. 18.]
1. Of boots or shoes: Having a single thickness of material in the sole.
| 1541 Extr. Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 453 The best dowbill solit schoine..and the best singill solit schoine thai can mak. 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden F 4, In the single-soald pumpes of his aduersitie. 1640–1 Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 149 The inch of single-solled schoes, of the best sort, at xvjd. the inch... The secund sort of single-solled schoes, at xiiijd. the inch. 17.. Souters of Selkirk in Scott Border Minstr. (1802) I. 249 And up wi' a' the braw lads, That sew the single soaled shoon. 1820 Scott Monast. xiii, Commendations of her fair guest, from the snood, as they say, to the single-soled shoe. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4977, The fastening can be used with single-soled or light boots. |
† 2. fig. Of persons: Poor, mean, of little account or worth. Obs.
| 1588 Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. xvii. 62 Singlesowld Lawyers and golden Asses. 1593 P. Stubbes Motive to Good Wks. 93 Then should not our land have beene pestered with so many up-start single-soled Gentlemen. 1607 R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 189 Those silly soules, the singlesoled priests. 1611 Cotgr., Gentilhommeau, a small, or single-soled, Gentleman; a Gentleman of low degree. 1640 Bastwick Ld. Bishops iv. D 3 b, Excommunication is a Solemne businesse, not to be..done in a blind Court, and by a single soled Priest. |