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2008, Kwame Shauku, Wonderful Williams and the Magnificent Seven, page 257:
She'd been wearing heels, and fell backward off her right heel and twisted or broke her ankle.
2011, Candace Irvine, A Dangerous Engagement:
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.
2015, Alex Blackmore, Killing Eva:
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.
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
1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 32:
Boiled mutton was in one, and the heel of a damper in another.
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.
2022 March 20, Jason Bailey, “‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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.
(slang,professional wrestling) A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
1992, Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society, page 158:
Freedman began his analysis by noting two important facts about professional wrestling: First, that heels triumph considerably more often than do babyfaces[…]
1722, Claude Perrault, A Treatise of the Five Orders in Architecture, page vii:
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.
1846, George William Francis, The Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures:
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.
1891, Vignola, Practical Elementary Treatise on Architecture, page ii:
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1764, John Nourse, Navigation Or, the Art of Sailing Upon the Sea, page 65:
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.
heel (third-person singular simple presentheels, present participleheeling, simple past and past participleheeled)
(rare, now especially in the phrase "heel in")Alternative form of hele(“cover; conceal”).
1911, Biennial Report of the State Geologist, North Carolina Geological Survey Section, page 92:
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.
1913, Indian School Journal, page 142:
In the late fall the seedlings may be dug and heeled in very closely until all the leaves have dropped.
1916, Transactions of the Indiana Horticultural Society, page 111:
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.
1937, Robert Wilson, Ernest John George, Planting and care of shelterbelts on the northern Great Plains, page 15:
If trees are received from the nursery in the fall, they should be carefully heeled in until the planting season opens in the spring.
1976, Keith W. Dorman, The Genetics and Breeding of Southern Pines, page 66:
Place seedlings in the trench. Small-stemmed seedlings may be heeled-in in bunches of 25, but large seedlings should be heeled-in loose.
(Can we date this quote?), Brian Kerr, Lodge St Lawrence 144 Ritual, page 34:
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 .
1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 7:
Wi spur upa heel hay gaed him a goad,
With a spur on his heel, he gave him a goad,
References
Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 132