Definition of heel

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

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Heel :: Heel (v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting..
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..
Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..
Hob :: Hob (n.) The hub of a wheel. See Hub.
Dearborn :: Dearborn (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides..
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
Cyclo- :: Cyclo- () A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel..
Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Roller :: Roller (n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc..
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.
Frame :: Frame (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
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..
Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping..
Four-wheeler :: Four-wheeler (n.) A vehicle having four wheels.
Water Wheel :: Water wheel () The paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
Diligence :: Diligence (n.) A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France..
Gharry :: Gharry (n.) Any wheeled cart or carriage.
Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..
Ratchet :: Ratchet (n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch..
Hutch :: Hutch (n.) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit..
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