ˈwindow-sole dial.
[sole n.1 4 a.]
= prec.
1570–80 Fabric Rolls York Minster (Surtees) 118 For lyme for the masons to sett the wyndowe sole with, 16 d. 1591 in Archaeologia LXIV. 370, 111 midell peeces of windo sole. 1737 Ramsay Sc. Prov. Ded., May never a window-sole..be without them. 1828 Moir Mansie Wauch xxii. 326 Sharp frosty nights that left all the window-soles white⁓washed over with frost-rind in the mornings. 1847 H. Miller First Impr. Eng. vi. 100 In fashioning the soft red sandstone into door-pieces, and window-soles. |