单词 | heel quarter |
释义 | > as lemmasheel quarter heel quarter n. one of the pieces of leather, etc., making up that part of the upper of a boot or shoe which encloses the wearer's heel; (also) this part as a whole, the counter; cf. quarter n. 22c. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 14/1 Parts of a Shooe..The Rann [is] the Leather as holds the Heel quarters and Vamp to the Soles. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 7 Dec. 244 Country-women and Servant-girls, who with their clean white stockings and with slippers without heel-quarters, tripped along the dirty streets. 1893 Trans. Calif. State Agric. Soc. 1892 155 Sandals, with heavy, wooden soles, leather heel quarters, and a leather band across the instep. 2006 D. Tiberio & J. R. Hinkebein in J. D. Placzek & D. A. Boyce Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Secrets (ed. 2) lxxviii. 630 Wearing a shoe that has a low throat and heel quarter..may cause this sensation. < as lemmas |
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