Definition of heel

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Heel (n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position..

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Throw :: Throw (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a)..
Castor :: Castor (n.) See Caster, a small wheel..
Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.
Four-wheeler :: Four-wheeler (n.) A vehicle having four wheels.
Frame :: Frame (n.) The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
Dish :: Dish (n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel..
Wheeler :: Wheeler (n.) The European goatsucker.
Tungsten :: Tungsten (n.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18..
Cart :: Cart (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot..
Hooke''s Gearing :: Hooke's gearing () Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle..
Wheel :: Wheel (n.) A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
Engage :: Engage (v. i.) To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..
Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
Heeler :: Heeler (n.) A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.
Cyclometer :: Cyclometer (n.) A contrivance for recording the revolutions of a wheel, as of a bicycle..
Heelpiece :: Heelpiece (n.) The end.
Depth :: Depth (n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
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..
Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..
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