Definition of heel

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Heel (v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it..

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Milldam :: Milldam (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel..
Fudge Wheel :: Fudge wheel () A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
Gharry :: Gharry (n.) Any wheeled cart or carriage.
Sledge :: Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled..
Truckle :: Truckle (n.) A small wheel or caster.
Screw :: Screw (n.) A steam vesel propelled by a screw instead of wheels; a screw steamer; a propeller.
Trundle :: Trundle (v. t.) To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage..
Duledge :: Duledge (n.) One of the dowels joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage.
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street..
Verticillated :: Verticillated (a.) Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell..
Boss :: Boss (n.) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another..
Wheely :: Wheely (a.) Circular; suitable to rotation.
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels..
Tricycle :: Tricycle (n.) A three-wheeled velocipede. See Illust. under Velocipede. Cf. Bicycle.
Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
Snotter :: Snotter (n.) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..
Tungsten :: Tungsten (n.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18..
Cog :: Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel..
Trochilics :: Trochilics (n.) The science of rotary motion, or of wheel work..
Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..
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