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English
Etymology
From heel + piece.
Noun
heelpiece (plural heelpieces)
- A piece of armour to protect the heels.
- January 15 1753, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in Letters to His Son, published in 1774
- Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed , and even with the addition of a heelpiece.
- A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.
- (figuratively) The end.
1761, Robert Lloyd, The Cobler of Tissington's Letter to David Garrick, Esq.:the heel-piece of his book
References
“heelpiece”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.