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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



... heel. The poor baroness, all whose pride the iron law, with its iron gripe, had crushed into dismay and terror, appealed to him. "O sir! send me from the house, but not from the soil where my Henri is laid! is there not in all ...
— White Lies • Charles Reade
... Merritt?" he asked softly but solicitously. "Hope you haven't got a stone bruise on your heel. Did you hear anything suspicious? Are we going to be held up by a patrol? Oh! dear, why don't you hurry ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... softened—he touched the hand held out to him, and looked doubtful a moment; but Captain de Burgh Smith's cheque for eighty guineas suddenly rose before his eyes. He turned on his heel abruptly, and ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the first of these, that saints are like to meet with needy times, or with such times as will show them that they need a continual assistance of the grace of God, that they may go rightly through this world. This is therefore a motive, that weareth a spur in the heel of it, a spur to prick us forward to supplicate at the throne of grace. This needy time is in other places called the perilous time, the evil day, the hour and power of darkness, the day of temptation, the cloudy and dark day (2 Tim 3:1; Eph 6:13; ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... the Irish blood. Still, some of it is due to the fact that he is moved by a deep sense of the woes and the wrongs, of the sadness and the sorrows of his native land. Oppression and injustice only inflame the spirit of nationality. The heel of the oppressor may crush and tear the form or reduce the strength, but nothing crushes the inward resolve of the heart. The Americans were never so American as when they revolted against England and threw the tea overboard into Boston ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various


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