Definition of heel

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

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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..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A turn revolution; rotation; compass.
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.
Shank :: Shank (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
Guide :: Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Wheely :: Wheely (a.) Circular; suitable to rotation.
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..
Cart :: Cart (n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles..
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
Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
Gladstone :: Gladstone (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman..
Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation..
Heelpiece :: Heelpiece (n.) A piece of armor to protect the heels.
Axletree :: Axletree (n.) A spindle or axle of a wheel.
Counter :: Counter (adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot.
Tilbury :: Tilbury (n.) A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover..
Heelpiece :: Heelpiece (n.) A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.
Skip :: Skip (n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories..
Count-wheel :: Count-wheel (n.) The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire..
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