Meaning of падэшва | Babel Free

Definitions

1. sole (the bottom of a shoe or boot)
2. sole (the bottom or plantar surface of the foot)
3. foot (the base or bottom of anything)

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Examples

“The young Alexander, interpreting this into a positive promise, to be shortly redeemed, tumbled over with fear and grief, and lay upon the floor, exhibiting the soles of his shoes and making such a deafening outcry, that Mrs. Mac Stinger found it necessary to take him up in her arms, where she quieted him, ever and anon, as he broke out again, by a shake that seemed enough to loosen his teeth.”

“U prytułku i ŭ letnich kalonijach „Zołak“ mieŭ na poŭnym utrymańni 160 dziaciej, pačatkavuju bieł. škołu, u katoraj vučyłasia 80 dziaciej, dziciačy chor, teatralnuju družynu, kursy dla dziaciej daškolnaha vieku, urešcie majstroŭni dziela papraŭki chuścia i dziela vyrabu botaŭ na dzieraŭlanych padešvach.”

In its orphanage and in its summer camps „Zołak“ had 160 children under its full supervision, a Belarusian primary school with 80 children studying there, a children's choir, a theater group, courses for preschool children, workshops for fixing clothes and for manufacturing boots with wooden soles.

“But no one took any notice of Mowgli sitting among the tall reeds humming songs without words, and looking at the soles of his hard brown feet in case of neglected thorns.”

“Au crépuscule, vers neuf heures du soir, au bas du plateau de Mont-Saint-Jean, il en restait un.”

At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left at the foot of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean.

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