Uses in which the heel is viewed primarily as a means or instrument. A person's (spurred) heel used as a means to manage a horse when riding; the…

Applied to various things made of cork. A sandal or slipper made of cork; a cork sole or heel for a shoe. Obsolete.

A high stacked heel for boots and shoes, fashionable in the 17th cent. and apparently made in the Polish style. Cf. polony, adj. Now historical.

A tall heel on a shoe or other item of footwear. Also: an item of footwear having such a heel; esp. a stiletto. Usually in plural.

a special form of horseman's boot-heel, to which the rims of the spur are affixed.

A shoe heel made of rubber.

Louis XV, 1715–74.

A type of heel used on a woman's shoe (see quot. 1968).

a medium high, comparatively straight heel.

a low heel like that of a brogue shoe.

a fashionable narrow high heel of a woman's shoe, tapering towards a point (cf. stiletto heel n. at stiletto, n. compounds 3); hence, a spike-heeled…

a very narrow, high heel on women's shoes, fashionable esp. in the 1950s; a shoe with such a heel.

Designating a wedge-shaped heel extended under the instep of a woman's shoe (also, the sole which includes this), or a shoe having such a heel…

Short for stiletto heel n. at compounds 3.

transferred. A wedge heel; a wedge-soled shoe. See sense 9 below. colloquial.

stacked heel, a heel built by stacking or appearing to stack thin layers of wood or other material. Also stacked-heeled adj.

(a shoe with) a high heel.