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/ˈhiːl piːs/, U.S. /ˈhil ˌpis/ 1. The part of a boot or shoe which forms its heel; a piece added to the heel of a boot or shoe.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel
heel1409
heel piece1674
1674 R. Head Complaisant Compan. 75 I did stay but while I had a heel-piece set upon my Toe.
1694 Coll. Improvem. Husbandry & Trade 7 Dec. These Heel-Pieces are commonly made here in Town, of a sort of Wood from Norway.
1709 Brit. Apollo 4–9 Nov. A pair of Heel-pieces.
1733 J. Swift On Poetry 12 Like a Heel-piece to support A Cripple with one Foot too short.
1781 Whitehall Evening-post 14–16 Aug. Has Mr. Ch—s J—n lost a Heel piece to his shoes in running from Palace to Palace?
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 192/1 Heeling..putting new heel-pieces to boots.
1871 Bristol Mercury 25 Mar. 3/5 John George Morgan was charged with stealing 32 leather heel-pieces and an upper.
1907 E. W. Sanderson Census of Manufactures 1905: Boots & Shoes (U.S. Bureau of Census Bulletin No. 72) 24/2 The smaller pieces are died out in the form of lifts or heel pieces, which are joined together to the proper thickness and cemented.
1952 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 8 July 6/5 To keep them from wearing down too fast have him put metal heel pieces on the edges.
2010 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 30 Mar. d1 A wooden Japanese thong platform called a geta, with separate heel pieces, has been traced to 300 B.C.
2. A piece of armour covering the heel, to which a spur may be attached; the part of a spur which attaches to the heel. Chiefly historical.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > armour for feet
sabatonc1330
foot piece1611
supeter1611
heel piece1688
solleret1826
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vii. 304/1 Their Spurs were only armed with a sharp point like a Cocks Spur, the Buckles being solidly fixed to the Heel piece.
1753 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 15 Jan. in Lett. to Son (1774) II. 311 Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed, and even with the addition of a heel-piece.
1912 Archaeol. Jrnl. 69 87 The heel-piece and first arch are turned over to grip the outward turned lower margin of the greave.
1929 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1928–9 C. 37 121 Fragment of a spur, the heel-piece 2¾″ across, the prick 1″ long.
2003 Oxoniensia 67 353 Identifiable objects include..: the heel-piece and the rowel or prick mount of a spur.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > the latter part
eveningOE
enda1200
eventide?c1225
finea1350
tail1377
latter (last) enda1382
issue1484
latter day?1498
waning1561
last days1572
heel1584
sunsetting1593
fall1596
lag-end1598
posterior1598
sunset1599
dotage1606
exit1615
stern1623
waning timea1639
last1683
heel piecea1764
shank1828
tail-end1845
tailpiece1869
tag1882
teatime1913
end-point1921
a1764 R. Lloyd Cobler of Tissington's Let. in Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 90 And then it griev'd me sore to look Just at the heel-piece of his book.
1786 Mrs. Johnson Francis III. 176 That great furnisher of theatric heel-pieces.
4. Nautical. A piece attached to the lower end of a timber in a made mast.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > parts of
heel1602
heeling1794
heel piece1794
housingc1860
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 27 The heel-piece..coaks on to the heel of the lower tree, and the head-piece to the upper tree.
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXII. at Mast Sometimes side-trees are assisted in their length by working heel-pieces, scarfed underneath at their lower ends.
1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 172 The mast is made up of several pieces..spindles, side-trees,..heel-pieces, and others.
1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea iii. 52 Presently you will see that twin jury mainmast of hers replaced by something less horrible made up from everything you can imagine..: upper-tree, side-trees, heel-pieces, [etc.].
2014 W. L. Crothers Masting of Amer. Merchant Sail 1850s 61/2 In this instance the heelpiece covers about two-thirds of the butt, or heel, of the mast while the head piece covers the opposite two-thirds of the upper end.
5. The back part of a shoe enclosing the wearer's heel; the counter (see counter n.6). Cf. heel counter n. at heel n.1 and int. Compounds 2a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > parts of
lift1677
heeltap1688
heel piece1841
top lift1842
heel lift1844
heel brace1859
heel breast1873
riser1928
1841 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 Apr. 85/2 The solea was a sandal with an upright heel piece, from which ties passed to the front.
1908 Indianapolis Sunday Star 11 Oct. The cloth shoe with the curved patent leather vamp and heelpiece.
1958 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 88 133 The upper is made up of a long vamp..and a heel-piece sloping down from the back to the sides to where the two fastening flaps were stitched to it.
2011 D. Diehl & M. P. Donnelly Medieval Celebrations (ed. 2) xvii. 179/2 When the front of the shoe is sewn together, sew the heel piece onto the sole.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > strengthening timbers at ends of keel
dead wood1728
rising wood1750
heel piece1869
1869 T. Smith Handbk. Iron Shipbuilding 11 Limber-holes should be cut so as to clear frames, heel-pieces, lug-pieces for keelsons, intercostals, &c.
1904 A. C. Holms Pract. Shipbuilding I. 471 The frame heel pieces are usually fitted when the frames are screwed up ready for riveting.
1921 Power Boating Dec. 15/2 Lower ends to be notched and fastened into inner chine and copper riveted to 13/ 8 in. oak heel pieces, or bronze angles.
7. Electronics A magnetically permeable bracket to which the core of an electromagnet is attached, and through which the magnetic flux is directed. Now rare.
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1871 U.S. Patent 114,938 1/1 Affixed to the outer heel-piece of each system of magnets..are vertical stays.
1879 Boston Weekly Globe 18 Nov. 7/6 The bare cores are four inches in diameter, solid iron. The ‘heel piece’ is three and three-quarters inches thick, six and a half wide and eighteen inches long.
1904 M. 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.
1946 Pop. Mech. Mar. 218 The relay consists of a core, a coil wound on the core, a frame or ‘heel’ piece, an armature and an arm on the armature which moves the contact springs.
2011 V. Gurevich Digital Protective Relays i. 46 (caption) One of the most popular variants of construction of the turning-type magnetic system, widely used in miniature relays. 1: winding; 2: pole of the magnetic core..; 6: heel piece of relay.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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