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▪ I. soile Cornish dial.|sɔɪl|
Also 7–9 soil, 7–8 soyle, 9 soyl.
[? An irregular local variation of seal n.1 The variation also occurs in Newfoundland English (see Dict. Newfoundland Eng.).]
The common seal. Cf. swile.
1602Carew Cornw. i. 34 b, The Seale or Soyle, is in making and growth, not vnlike a Pigge, vgly faced, and footed like a Moldwarp. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 34 The Soile or Sea Calf, a Creature that brings forth her young ones upon dry land. 1674Ray Coll. Words, Fishes 107 On the Rocks near the Lands end they often find the Phocæ (which they call Soils) sleeping. Ibid., They distinguish between Soils and Sieles: the Siele they affirm to be a Fish..much less then the soile, and not taken upon our Coasts. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 284 Among the quadruped reptiles we may reckon the seal or sea-calf, vulgarly called in Cornwall the Soyle. a1863J. T. Tregellas Cornish Tales (1868) 61 Haling the soils up from the say. 1880W. Cornwall Gloss. 53/1.
▪ II. soile
obs. Sc. form of sole n.1 |