soled

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of sole.

   The workshop soled hundreds of army boots during the war.

   Each pair was soled with leather cut and stitched by hand.

   Note

   Both past forms are regular. Sole simply adds -d, so "the workshop soled the boots" and "the boots were soled" use one spelling. Usually this is the cobbler's verb, meaning to put a sole on a shoe. But there is also a UK dialect verb sole, meaning to pull someone by the ears or haul them about, and it gives the same soled. Compounds like rubber-soled belong to the adjective.

2. 2
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a sole of a specified type or material.

   The dancers preferred leather-soled shoes for the polished stage.

   He bought a pair of steel-soled work boots for the factory floor.

   Note

   A word that almost never stands alone. It is the second half of a compound whose first half names the sole: rubber-soled, leather-soled, crepe-soled. Before a noun the compound is hyphenated (a rubber-soled shoe). Built from the noun sole plus -ed, it shares its spelling with the past form of the verb, but it describes what a shoe has, not what someone did to it. It takes no more or most.

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