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lark-heel, lark's-heel
1. a. = larkspur. b. Indian cress or garden nasturtium (Tropæolum).
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxxvi. 923 Flos Regius..in English Larkes spur, Larkes heele, Larkes toes, Larkes clawe and Munkes hoode. 1612Two Noble K. i. i. Song, Mary⁓golds, on death beds blowing, Larkes-heeles trymme. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 280 Now sow Larks-heels, Canditufts, Columbines, &c. 1695Tate tr. Cowley's Plants iv. C.'s Wks. 1721 III. 360 The Indian-Cress our Climate now does bear, Call'd Larks-heel, 'cause he wears a Horsemans Spur. 1706J. Gardiner Rapin's Gard. (1728) 18 The Larkheel train, And Lychnis famous for her scarlet stain. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. (1765) 316 Lark's Heel, Delphinium. 1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 58 The tall topp'd lark⁓heels, feather'd thick with flowers.
2. The elongated heel, common among Black people.
1865Livingstone Zambesi 501 Nor do we meet what is termed the lark-heel any oftener here than among the civilized races of Europe. 1872― in Daily News 29 July, Prognathous jaws, lark heels, and other physical peculiarities common among slaves and West Coast negroes.
Hence lark-heeled a. (See quots.)
1837Gould Birds Europe III. 169 Lark-heeled Bunting, Plectrophanes Lapponica, Selby. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Lairock-heel'd, having an uncommon projection of heel. 1862Wood Nat. Hist. II. 567 The Coccyginæ, or Lark-heeled Cuckoos, so called from their long hind toe. |