Definition of heel

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

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Lobe :: Lobe (n.) The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels..
Rouet :: Rouet (n.) A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks for discharging them.
Cab :: Cab (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle..
Clearance :: Clearance (n.) The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a steam engine, or the least distance between the point of a cogwheel tooth and the bottom of a space between teeth of a wheel with which it engages..
Trig :: Trig (v. t.) To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid..
Chute :: Chute (n.) A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel..
Escapade :: Escapade (n.) The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol..
Pace :: Pace (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces..
Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.
Sheeling :: Sheeling (n.) A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed..
Whorler :: Whorler (n.) A potter's wheel.
Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard..
Ratchet :: Ratchet (n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch..
Carriage :: Carriage (n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage..
Gather :: Gather (n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
Sheal :: Sheal (n.) Same as Sheeling.
Start :: Start (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.
Car :: Car (n.) A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart..
Sponged :: Sponge (n.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel..
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