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Home Dictionary Name: heelHeel
To lean or tip to one side as a ship as the ship heels aport the boat heeled over when the squall struck it...
Feather heeled
Light heeled gay frisky frolicsome...
Boxhaul
To put a vessel on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox i e sharp aback on the wind...
Calcaneum
One of the bones of the tarsus which in man forms the great bone of the heel called also fibulare...
Capellet
A swelling like a wen on the point of the elbow or the heel of the hock of a horse caused probably by bruises in lying down...
Dashboard
A board placed on the fore part of a carriage sleigh or other vehicle to intercept water mud or snow thrown up by the heels of the horses in England commonly called splashboard...
down bow
a downward stroke from the heel to the tip of the bow in bowing a stringed instrument Contrasted with up bow when the bow is moved in the opposite direction...
Escapade
The fling of a horse or ordinary kicking back of his heels a gambol...
Fid
A square bar of wood or iron used to support the topmast being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel and resting on the trestle trees...
Gablock
A false spur or gaff fitted on the heel of a gamecock...
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