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To take soil. A hunting term, signifying that the deer has taken to the water. Soil, in French, is the mire in which a wild boar wallows. (Danish, sol, mire; Swedish, söla, to wallow.)
Fida went downe the dale to seeke the hinde, And founde her taking soyle within a flood
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