Definition of heel

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Heel (n.) The after end of a ship's keel.

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Treadmill :: Treadmill (n.) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt..
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Ratch :: Ratch (n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works..
Machine :: Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to
Omnibus :: Omnibus (n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances..
Scheelium :: Scheelium (n.) The metal tungsten.
Spoken :: Spoke (v. t.) To furnish with spokes, as a wheel..
Trig :: Trig (n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid..
Heel :: Heel (v. t.) To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe..
Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head..
Slipper :: Slipper (n.) A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
Roller :: Roller (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc..
Rundle :: Rundle (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Engage :: Engage (v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together..
Reversal :: Reversal (n.) The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens..
Trochite :: Trochite (n.) A wheel-like joint of the stem of a fossil crinoid.
Propeller :: Propeller (n.) A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel..
Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance..
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