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1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xcvii. 387 From the two heele-nayles backward, let the shooe be broader then the hoofe.

1655 Natura Exenterata 417 Make one purl at the beginning of your heel-needle, then take up a stitch between the two purls and work it plain, then the next stitch make a purl, and the next stitch work plain.

1702 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman (new ed.) i. xix. 78 When you are arrived from a Journey, immediately draw the two Heel-nails of the Fore-feet.

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 144 A Heel leather to shelter the legs behind.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon v. 119 At the heel-end [in a drill-plough] of this sole, a perpendicular bar is inserted.

1856 Calcutta Rev. 26 351 The poor villagers trudging through the dried-up fields in the hot months get a kind of heel-crack.

1859 C. Dickens Haunted House: Ghost in Corner Room in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec. 48 There ensued such toe-and-heeling..and double-shuffling, and heel-sliding.

1880 Turner & Co.'s Catal. Tools (Sheffield) 66 Common brown Skate Straps, with heel loops.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 306/2 Place together the pin holding the heel stitches and those holding the foot stitches.

1887 F. Marryat Driven to Bay III. xv. 241 Clinging to the heel end of the spar.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 494 A firm heelclacking is heard.

1926 D. H. Lawrence Let. 19 Jan. (1932) 647 Murry..wrote me impertinently..that I was a professional heel-kicker.

1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South i. iii. 83 Jim Crow—the banjo-picking, heel-flinging, hi-yi-ing happy jack of the levees and the cotton fields.

1943 Boys' Life Dec. 8 Attach the bindings so that when lifted by the heel strap, the ski balances in horizontal position.

1963 Financial Times 5 Oct. 8/5 The top layer of heel leather wears down in about one day.

2003 B. Fradkin Mist Walker (2009) 92 Green heard the clicking of heel studs against the hard tile.