† heel-piecev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To mend or replace the heel of (a boot or shoe).
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1699 Country Gentleman's Vade-mecum 125 As for Money, he never has any..unless it be now and then the Fragments of a Reckoning which he pinches from the Drawer, to heel-piece his Shoes or recruit his Tobacco Box.
1705 S. Centlivre Gamester iii. 32 I wou'd not have paid the Cobler for Heel-peiceing my Shoes.
1770 Independent Chron. 11 Apr. My shoes were so badly mended, that I have not been able to walk abroad ever since they have been new soled and heel-pieced.
1803 J. Bristed Adviser I. xvi. 131 Coblers jostling against each other, that they may arrive at the dignity of heel-piecing an old shoe.
1862 Punch 29 Mar. 23/2 They had always made a point of having their boots forepieced and heelpieced, and soled, and otherwise mended.
Derivatives
heel-piecing n.
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1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses vii. 31 Some blam'd Mrs. Bull for new heel-piecing of her Shoes.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 275 I don't think he has had so much as a job of heel-piecing to do since [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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