Heel

He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, / His winged heels and then his armed head.

He drove the heel of his hand into the man's nose.

She'd been wearing heels, and fell backward off her right heel and twisted or broke her ankle.

Opting to improve her odds of making it up the stairs and into the privacy of her room, she kicked off her left heel, and then her right before leaning down to scoop them up.

Flat shoes. As she pushed off her left heel and pressed the sole of her foot to the cold floor she looked forward to them.

Oh mama, I'm just having fun On the stage in my heels It's where I belong down at the...

the heel of a mast

the heel of a vessel

And then again the sportsmen would move at an undertaker's pace, when the fox had traversed and the hounds would be at a loss to know which was the hunt and which was the heel

the heel of the white loaf

Boiled mutton was in one, and the heel of a damper in another.

`Have ye seen,' said Uncle Jobson with basilisk severity, `what's become of the heel of to-day's loaf?'

The bottom half, or the bun heel is placed in the carton, and the pickle slices spread evenly over the meat or cheese.

I grinned at him sneeringly. I was the heel to end all heels. Wait until the man is down, then kick him and kick him again. He's weak. He can't resist or kick back.

She should be glad to have him on her side. So why did Godshawk's memories, grumbling again in that substrate of her brain, keep reminding her of heels he'd known, and tricksters?

Douglas steams and stammers, a typical film noir heel, while Stone delivers her dialogue with the devilish gleam of a sly actor having a great time.

Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces[…]

Of these there are two Kinds; in the one, that Part which has the greatest Projecture is Concave, and is term'd Doucine, or an Upright Ogee; in the other, the Convex Part has the greatest Projecture; and this is call'd the Heel, or Inverted Ogee.

There are two kinds—the upright ogee, in which the concave part projects most, and the heel or inverted ogee, which has the convexity most prominent. This last, with its fillet above, is always the upper moulding of a classical cornice.

Talon: Heel moulding or ogee

She called to her dog to heel.

she heeled her horse forward

I cannot sing, Nor heel the high lavolt.

The faster a ship sails, the better she will answer her helm; if she sail very slow, she will scarce steer at all. If she heel much, she won't answer the helm so well.

[T]he boat, from a sudden gust of wind, taking a deep heel, I tumbled overboard and down I went […] .

They should be dug up with a sharp mattock or grub hoe, the roots being broken as little as possible, and they should be heeled in a cool place and protected from the sun until ready to plant. When lifted for planting from the trench in which heeled the roots should be kept covered with a wet sack.

In the late fall the seedlings may be dug and heeled in very closely until all the leaves have dropped.

Member: Did you water the trees when you set them out? Walter Vonnegut: No; I heeled the trees in as soon as they were received.

If trees are received from the nursery in the fall, they should be carefully heeled in until the planting season opens in the spring.

Place seedlings in the trench. Small-stemmed seedlings may be heeled-in in bunches of 25, but large seedlings should be heeled-in loose.

[I] of my own free will and accord, do hereby, here at and hereon, solemnly swear that I will always heel, conceal and never improperly reveal any of the secrets or mysteries of, or belonging to [the Masons].