Definition of heel

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Heel (n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

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Somerset :: Somerset (n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Shiver :: Shiver (n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
Welt :: Welt (n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed..
Link :: Link (n.) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained..
Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
Brougham :: Brougham (n.) A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short..
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..
Staw :: Staving (n.) A cassing or lining of staves; especially, one encircling a water wheel..
Flanged :: Flanged (a.) Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel..
Facing :: Facing (n.) The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about; -- chiefly in the pl..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A bicycle or a tricycle; a velocipede.
Escapade :: Escapade (n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
Arbor :: Arbor (n.) An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.
Operameter :: Operameter (n.) An instrument or machine for measuring work done, especially for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter..
Tachometer :: Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork..
Heel :: Heel (n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position..
Brush :: Brush (n.) The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed..
Mantle :: Mantle (n.) A penstock for a water wheel.
Odometer :: Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed..
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