Definition of heel

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Heel (n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc..

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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..
Heel :: Heel (n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well..
Sledge :: Sledge (n.) A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a sled..
Clarence :: Clarence (n.) A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver..
Staff :: Staff (n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch..
Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.
Complain :: Complain (v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel..
Wheeler :: Wheeler (n.) A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler.
Bevel Gear :: Bevel gear () A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet..
Truck :: Truck (v. i.) A low, wheeled vehicle or barrow for carrying goods, stone, and other heavy articles..
Suffrance :: Suffrago (n.) The heel joint.
Wheel :: Wheel (v. t.) To convey on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle; as, to wheel a load of hay or wood..
Lark''s-heel :: Lark's-heel (n.) Indian cress.
Fid :: Fid (n.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees..
Water Motor :: Water motor () A water wheel; especially, a small water wheel driven by water from a street main..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A spinning wheel. See under Spinning.
Washer :: Washer (n.) A ring of metal, leather, or other material, or a perforated plate, used for various purposes, as around a bolt or screw to form a seat for the head or nut, or around a wagon axle to prevent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc..
Wrest :: Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined..
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..
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