heel

heel is a 4-letter English word with 28 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 28 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.
2. noun. The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.
5. noun. Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
6. noun. The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests
7. noun. The after end of a ship's keel.
8. noun. The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc.
9. noun. In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position.
10. noun. The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt.
11. noun. The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe.
12. noun. Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
13. noun. The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
14. noun. A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen.
15. transitive verb. To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.
16. transitive verb. To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
17. transitive verb. To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
18. noun. the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
19. noun. (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft
20. noun. the lower end of a ship's mast
21. noun. the back part of the human foot
22. noun. one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
23. noun. someone who is morally reprehensible

    "you dirty dog"

    Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, hound

24. verb. put a new heel on

    "heel shoes"

    Synonyms: reheel

25. verb. strike with the heel of the club

    "heel a golf ball"

26. verb. perform with the heels

    "heel that dance"

27. verb. follow at the heels of a person
28. verb. tilt to one side

    "The balloon heeled over"

    "the wind made the vessel heel"

    Synonyms: list

Synonyms

blackguard, bounder, cad, dog, hound, reheel, list

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in heel:

hele

Common word forms

heels, heeled, heeler, heeling, heelless

Words from these letters

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