Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece made for or serving as the heel of a shoe or stocking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish with a heel-piece; add an additional heel-piece to, as in repairing.
- noun That part of a shoe or stocking which incloses the heel of the foot either beneath or behind, or both; the heel.
- noun Armor for the heel, especially that part of the solleret which covered the heel and the back of the ankle, and to which the spur was attached.
- noun In iron ship-building, a short length of angle-bar which is used to connect the heels of the two sections of a frame which meet at the center-line of the vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece of armor to protect the heels.
- noun A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.
- noun The end.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A piece of
armour to protect theheels . - noun A piece of
leather fixed on theheel of ashoe . - noun figuratively The
end .
Etymologies
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heel + piece
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Examples
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I am a very unlucky fellow, for I think I had naturally not a bad heart; but it has been so bent, twisted, and trampled on, that it has now become as hard as a Highlander's heelpiece.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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