Definition of heel

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Heel (n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping..

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Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..
Spoke :: Spoke (n.) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
Abaft :: Abaft (prep.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse..
Chariot :: Chariot (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat..
Wheel :: Wheel (v. t.) To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to cause to gyrate; to make or perform in a circle.
Pulley :: Pulley (v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain..
Suffrance :: Suffrago (n.) The heel joint.
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..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
Ribaudequin :: Ribaudequin (n.) An engine of war used in the Middle Ages, consisting of a protected elevated staging on wheels, and armed in front with pikes. It was (after the 14th century) furnished with small cannon..
Complain :: Complain (v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel..
Berlin :: Berlin (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin..
Gather :: Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
Buffer :: Buffer (n.) A wheel for buffing; a buff.
Danaide :: Danaide (n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one..
Cyclo- :: Cyclo- () A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) An instrument of torture formerly used.
Nauropometer :: Nauropometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.
Cart :: Cart (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot..
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