Window-sole

dial. [SOLE sb.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. 379. 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 whitewashed 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.