Definition of heel

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Heel (n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe..

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Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes..
Barouche :: Barouche (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat..
Bogie :: Bogie (n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track..
Photodrome :: Photodrome (n.) An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction..
Wheel :: Wheel (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood..
Rotative :: Rotative (a.) turning, as a wheel; rotary; rotational..
Marker :: Marker (n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment..
Play :: Play (n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below)..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..
Vettura :: Vettura (n.) An Italian four-wheeled carriage, esp. one let for hire; a hackney coach..
Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket..
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
Orrery :: Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system..
Car Wheel :: Car wheel () A flanged wheel of a railway car or truck.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Rotate :: Rotate (a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one..
Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses..
Tread :: Tread (n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
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