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1 semella [AN semele] 1 sole (of shoe). b horseshoe. 1245 sandalia ‥ cum ~is de coreo (Stat. S. Paul) Arch. L 474; sotulares breudate sine ~is Ib.; 1270 coria majora boum: in ~is xlviij parium botarum Ac. Beaulieu 211; 1279 in x corii laminis pro ~is xlj s. j d. Comp. Worc. 2; nec debent antipedie nove apponi ‥ nisi nove ~e apponantur Cust. Cant. 197.  b Nero ‥ soleas, id est ~as, argenteas mulis fecit Flor. Hist. I 118 in marg.. 2 ? part of a plough or cart, ? plough-shoe or rim of wheel. 1211 in carucis parandis, karris axandis et reparandis, cum unctura, ~is, jugis emptis, xij d. Pipe Wint. 169.
2 semella [cf. CL semita], lane, alley. 1486 tenementum ‥ est in ~a juxta ecclesiam colegii Reg. Merton 77.

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