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Heel

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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