[
US
/ˈhiɫ/
]
[ UK /hˈiːl/ ]
[ UK /hˈiːl/ ]
VERB
- follow at the heels of a person
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put a new heel on
heel shoes -
strike with the heel of the club
heel a golf ball -
perform with the heels
heel that dance -
tilt to one side
the wind made the vessel heel
The ship listed to starboard
The balloon heeled over
NOUN
- one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
-
someone who is morally reprehensible
you dirty dog - the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft
- the back part of the human foot
- the lower end of a ship's mast
How To Use heel In A Sentence
- OK, the steering is a little foggy, but the wheel unquestionably feels pleasant under the fingers. Times, Sunday Times
- It will also host the handball final and semifinals, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball. Times, Sunday Times
- Assemble the table on a level surface, turn the top wheel upside down and place the seat wheel on top of it.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- It also provides ample cushioning with shock-absorbing HydroFlow technology in the heel and forefoot, and has a water-repellant upper.
- I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
- But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
- Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
- Just the other day, I was almost run over by a two-wheeling speed demon who felt that a four-way stop applied to everyone but him and his Schwinn. Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On
- It freewheeled down the hill and collided with the car in which Mrs Reilly and her daughter were travelling.
