heel

heel has 28 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• v. i.. To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
• n.. The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.
• n.. The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.
• n.. The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
• n.. Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
• n.. The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
• n.. The after end of a ship's keel.
• n.. The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.
• n.. In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
• n.. The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.
• n.. The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.
• n.. Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.