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▪ I. ˈheeling, vbl. n.1
[f. heel v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of heel v.1, in various senses.
[1691J. Wilson Belphegor iv. iii, One cobbling of old shoes; another heeling of stockings.] 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ii. 186 ‘She'll know nothin' o' narrowin' an' heelin', I warrand.’ 1896Daily News 21 Feb. 3/5 There was none of the fashionable heeling-out for your Yorkshire forward. 1963Times 14 Feb. 3/4 They were helped, it is true, by the quicker heeling, although perhaps hindered by their stand-off half's unwillingness to part with the ball until too late.
2. concr.
a. The heel-piece of a stocking.
b. Naut. The (square) lower end of a mast or spar; the heel.
1591Spenser M. Hubberd 213 His hose broken high aboue the heeling. 1794Rigging and Seamanship I. 29 The heeling is to be square. 1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Heeling, the square part left at the lower end of a mast.
3. attrib., as heeling-machine, a machine for attaching the heel to a boot or shoe. heeling dog, a heeler (heeler 4 b).
1880Times 21 Sept. 4/4 There are other varieties of heeling machines, which also attach the heel with one stroke. 1947P. Newton Wayleggo 101 Jim had the severest heeling dog I have seen.
▪ II. ˈheeling, vbl. n.2
see under heel v.2 |