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ˈheel-ball, n.
1. The ball or under part of the heel.
1796S. Dinsmoor in Morse Amer. Geog. I. 667 One of these tracks was very large..the proximate breadth behind the toes seven inches, the diameter of the heel-ball five.
2. A polishing substance, composed principally of hard wax and lamp-black, used by shoemakers to give a shining black surface to the sole-edges of new boots and shoes; used also for taking rubbings of monumental brasses, etc.
1822R. G. Wallace Fifteen Years Ind. 142 Heel balls, shirts, and nankeen for the use of the soldiers. 1842Few Words to Churchw. (Camb. Camden Soc.) i. 11 There is a way of taking copies of them [brasses] by laying thin paper upon them, and rubbing it over with black lead, or with what is called heel-ball. 1861Sat. Rev. 22 June 647 What the upholsterers call ‘lining paper’, and what the shoe⁓makers call ‘heelball’, form the weapons of a brass-rubber.
Hence heel-ball v., to polish with heel-ball.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 369 The old shoes are to be cobbled up, and the cracks heel-balled over. 1870Daily News 10 Nov., The Prussian troops have heel-balled the eagle on their helmets. |