heel-piece

Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed, and even with the addition of a heel-piece.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

The high frontal shield protects the instep from mud and spear-grass, and the heel-piece ensures the retention of the shoe in the deepest quagmire.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The heel-piece is continued more than half-way up the calf behind.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Hilary once showed me the heel of a boot which had just been mended by the hedge carpenter and cobbler who worked for him; and offered to bet that not all the scientific people in Europe, with microscope, spectrum analysis, all their appliances, could tell what leather the new heel-piece was made of.

Round About a Great Estate Richard Jefferies 1867

By dint of a little hammering with stones, and cleaving with the hatchet, the butt of each was separated from the heel-piece, and then broken up into small fragments.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

Beside which, set open before him with due reverence this Bible, wherein he may read the mercies of God toward those who waited in patience for His blessing; and this pair of crimson silk hose, which thou knowest I have worn only thirteen months, taking heed that the heel-piece be put into good and sufficient restoration, at my sole charges, by the Italian woman nigh the pollard elm at Charing Cross.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819

Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed, and even with the addition of a heel-piece.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed, and even with the addition of a heel-piece.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

Joplin, he go on "out there" and prospect; and then Carington's foolishly irrelevant heel-piece, "Miss Gossamer sails for Europe

Sally of Missouri 1905