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Heel

noun
1.
The bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation.
2.
The back part of the human foot.
3.
Someone who is morally reprehensible.  Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, hound.
4.
One of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread.
5.
The lower end of a ship's mast.
6.
(golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft.
verb
(past & past part. heeled; pres. part. heeling)
1.
Tilt to one side.  Synonym: list.  "The wind made the vessel heel" , "The ship listed to starboard"
2.
Follow at the heels of a person.
3.
Perform with the heels.
4.
Strike with the heel of the club.
5.
Put a new heel on.  Synonym: reheel.



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"Heel" Quotes from Famous Books



... without doubt, a sad and grimy little baby once, brought up on gin slightly adulterated with his mother's milk. He was pounded daily before he was two years old, starved and cuffed and kicked all the way up to manhood, and now his neck is so completely under the heel of hydra-headed disaster, wickedness and want, that all he can find to do in this big and busy world is to sit on the sidewalk and lacerate the public ear with those dreadful discords. And yet, if death were to step up to that beggar's side and offer him release, instant and sure, in the form of ...
— A String of Amber Beads • Martha Everts Holden
... door. "Here, Angy,"—she addressed a girl of eight or ten years who sat on the flat boulder that was the cabin doorstep;—"you go get them taters; that's a good girl," she added coaxingly, as Angy did not stir. "If your foot hurts you, you can walk on your heel." ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... that flag! in God's name and the Queen's. Will not the Red Cross Banner rouse your zeal? Tear down that flag! and let who intervenes Bite hard the dust beneath your iron heel. Tear down that flag!—Oh, Canada! bow, bow Your shameful ...
— The Song of the Exile--A Canadian Epic • Wilfred S. Skeats
... we carry her off right away, Mr. Brumley? I want to go right in to her and say 'Look here! I'm on your side. Your husband's a tyrant. I'm help and rescue. I'm all that a woman ought to be—fine and large. Come out from under that unworthy man's heel!'" ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... Thou art bronzed, thy limbs are lithe; How I laugh as through the crosse-game, Slipst thou like red elder withe. Thou art none of these pale-faces! When with thee I'll happy feel, For thou art the Mohawk warrior From thy scalp-lock to thy heel. ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall


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