heel-tap

Fiquin needed only the lightest heel-tap to pick up his long-legged gate, and the patrol trotted up the incline as the crevice walls grew around them.

The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

Fiquin needed only the lightest heel-tap to pick up his long-legged gate, and the patrol trotted up the incline as the crevice walls grew around them.

The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993

Day after day, each man of us poured out on the trail the last heel-tap of his strength, and the coming of night found us utterly played out.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

He had played prompter for the white folks at a thousand frolics, and knew every step and turn and fling of the heel-tap and the toe, but he had never seen such a peculiar double demi-semi-quiver shuffle as that old buzzard loped around that mule.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

I folded my portion of these dispatches small, wrapped them in thin gutta-percha, and, going to the most obscure shoemaker in the part of London which I knew, had the heel of one of my boots excavated and the packet deposited in the hole and covered over again by a stout heel-tap.

The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901

"I think we are somewhere in the Atlantic; but your finding that heel-tap does puzzle me."

The Changing Sun 1894

This took the Englishman's breath away for a moment, then he remarked: "That accounts for the heel-tap we found; who knows, these people may be possessors of the richest gold and silver mines on earth."

The Changing Sun 1894

"I think we are somewhere in the Atlantic; but your finding that heel-tap does puzzle me."

The Land of the Changing Sun 1888

"That accounts for the heel-tap we found; who knows, these people may be possessors of the richest gold and silver mines on earth."

The Land of the Changing Sun 1888

A complete change of garments-not a thumb-patch or extra heel-tap missing.

Filling the Ice-house. 1869