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ˈheel-piece, n.
1. The piece forming or covering the heel.
a. The part of a shoe, etc. which forms its heel; a piece added to the heel.
1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 65. 2/2 A pair of Heel-pieces. 1733Swift On Poetry 173 Like a Heel-piece to support A Cripple with one Foot too short. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade 192/1 Heeling..putting new heel-pieces to boots.
b. Armour for the heel; that part of the solleret which bore the spur.
1828Webster, citing Chesterfield.
c. The piece forming the heel of a mast or the like.
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 27 The heel-piece..coaks on to the heel of the lower tree, and the head-piece to the upper tree.
d. Shipbuilding. An angle-bar joining the heels of a frame across the keel.
1904A. C. Holms Pract. Shipbuilding I. 471 The frame heel pieces are usually fitted when the frames are screwed up ready for riveting.
e. Electr. The iron bar connecting the soft iron cores in an electro-magnet.
1904M. M. Kirkman Telegr. & Telephone 29 The magnet is constructed of a bar or heel piece of soft iron, into which are screwed two pencil-shaped pieces of iron which form the cores of the magnets.
2. fig. The end-piece; the conclusion.
1761Lloyd Cobbler Tessington's Let. 16 And then it griev'd me sore to look Just at the heel-piece of his book. 1786Francis, Philanthr. III. 176 That great furnisher of theatric heel-pieces.
Hence heel-piece v. trans., to put a heel-piece on.
1712Arbuthnot John Bull iii. vii, Some blamed Mrs. Bull for new heelpiecing of her shoes. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 442, I don't think he has had so much as a job of heel-piecing to do since [etc.]. |