heelingn.1
/ˈhiːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhilɪŋ/ 1. † a. The action of covering something; esp. the action or activity of roofing a building. Obsolete (chiefly English regional (southern) in later use).In quot. lOE: protection. In quot. a1250: blindfolding.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun]
heelinglOE
hillinga1300
coveringc1400
overdrawing1463
obduction1578
overlaying1611
shrouding1615
blanketing1896
lOE Salisbury Psalter xxxv. 8 Filii autem hominum in tegmine alarum tuarum sperabunt : sunu witodlice manna on helunge fiðera þinra hihtað.
a1250 Lofsong Lefdi (Nero) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 207 Bi his spotlunge and bufettunge and his heliunge.
1451 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 94 For helyng of Synt Jamys ys Chapell.
1554 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 166 The tyler for ye hellyng of ye Church.
1632 W. Forster tr. W. Oughtred Circles of Proportion i. 44 In tileing, or healing they vse to reckon by the Square, which is 10 foot euery way, in all 100 feet.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xi. 213 Healing with Lead or flat Stone is not to be approved of, by reason of its weight.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 275 For Ripping, and Healing again..Bricklayers reckon 3s. 6d. per Square.
1725 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 15 Oct. 4 A Parcel of Slate (or Shindle-Stones) for tyling or healing of Houses.
1816 R. Polwhele Hist. Cornwall (new ed.) IV. iii. iv. 116 Slating, or healing of houses with slate, seems in Cornwall and Devon a trade in itself.
1898 Antiquary Apr. 109/1 By far the commonest material for the healing of roofs in the wealds of Surrey and Sussex was the Horsham stone slate.
1916 Building Age Apr. 33/1 The fact that dry heeling in place of bedding with mortar was better was demonstrated.
b. Horticulture. The action or practice of temporarily covering the roots of a plant with soil, straw, etc.; = heeling in n. at Compounds 1. rare.
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1852 Notes & Queries 14 Feb. 162/2 Every farmer or labourer in the west will tell you, that the second-helling [sic] of potatoes is the covering them with earth a second time.
1903 F. García Shade Trees & other Ornamentals 7 Some care is necessary in the heeling of trees... If air spaces are left, the roots are liable to dry up before the trees are set out.
2004 forums.gardenweb.com (O.E.D. Archive) Gardening can be enjoyable with the heeling of plants while renovating large beds.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun]
hiding?c1225
heelinga1250
hidea1300
hillinga1300
coverturec1374
tapinage1390
concealing1421
hodymokec1450
occultation1453
concelising1492
blindnessa1616
concealmenta1616
shrouding1615
back-hood1621
absconsion1649
screening1651
obvelation1664
muffling1788
tucking1810
smokescreening1922
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 66 Ðe heliunge [c1225 Cleo. hulinge, c1230 Corpus Cambr. hulunge] is ðe god dedes lif. & halt hit i ne strencðe.
J. Gaytryge Lay Folks' Catech. (York Min.) (1901) l. 223 All wrangwise takyng..hiding or helyng of othir men godes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 371 (MED) Poetes brouȝte in fables for þre skiles..for helynge [L. velandam] and hiȝtinge of kynde; so me seiþ þat Vulcanus halteþ, for þe fuyre is neuere euene.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 6 Fraudfull heiling and concealing of treasure.
1673 in J. Cameron Argyll Justiciary Rec. (1949) I. 29 For his heilling and concealing of the thefts.
a. The roof of a building; the material, esp. slate, which forms the roof of a building. Also: a roofing slate or tile. Cf. heeling stone n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete (English regional (southern) in later use).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun]
roofOE
thackOE
heelinga1325
coverture1382
house-copa1425
covering1459
housetop1526
rooftop1564
house heada1600
tecture1624
a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Trin. Cambr.) f. 132 E cel est le tekt dount est couert [glossed] helying of hous.
c1330 (?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch.) in J. Zupitza Guy of Warwick (1891) 657 (MED) Þe walles were of cristal; Þe heling was of fin ruwal.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 163 (MED) And the helynge [?a1425 Egerton thakk; Fr. couerture] of here houses & the wowes & the dores ben all of wode.
1473–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 15 (MED) To Thomas Helier for the reparacion of the helynge of our lady Chapell.
1562 in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 67 Item for the garner hovse yt lackes on Rybbe on helynge on wyndoy ij paer of dovre chekes And no wodd ther.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 169 Of the weight of this sort of Healing.
1788 G. White Jrnl. 28 June (1970) xxi. 312 But with regard to the brittle healing, large hail-storms..may some times be dreaded, which would occasion..havock among that fragil tiling.
1832 A. E. Bray Let. in Descr. Part Devonshire (1836) I. xviii. 306 Slaters with us..are called helliers, and the slate roof of a house is termed the helling.
1891 J. H. Pearce Esther Pentreath i. iii. 29 The houses..that were roofed with slates, had the hellins (as the Lanner folk call them) stripped off the roof by dozens at a time.
1893 H. C. O'Neill Told in Dimpses 22 He don't keep the haling on the roof as he should do.
b. Items worn to cover the body; clothing. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun]
clothesc888
hattersOE
shroudc1000
weedOE
shrouda1122
clothc1175
hatteringa1200
atourc1220
back-clout?c1225
habit?c1225
clothingc1275
cleadinga1300
dubbinga1300
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attirec1300
coverturec1300
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buskingc1330
farec1330
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tire1340
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apparelmentc1374
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vesturec1385
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vestmentc1386
arraya1400
graitha1400
livery1399
tirementa1400
warnementa1400
arrayment1400
parelc1400
werlec1400
raiment?a1425
robinga1450
rayc1450
implements1454
willokc1460
habiliment1470
emparelc1475
atourement1481
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reparel1521
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case1559
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furniture1566
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dud1567
hilback1573
wear1576
dress1586
enfolding1586
caparison1589
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address1592
ward-ware1598
garnish1600
investments1600
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dressing1603
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thing1605
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coutrement1621
vestament1632
vestiment1637
equipage1645
cask1646
aguise1647
back-timbera1656
investiture1660
rigging1664
drapery1686
vest1694
plumage1707
bussingc1712
hull1718
paraphernalia1736
togs1779
body clothing1802
slough1808
toggery1812
traps1813
garniture1827
body-clothes1828
garmenture1832
costume1838
fig1839
outfit1840
vestiture1841
outer womana1845
outward man1846
vestiary1846
rag1855
drag1870
clo'1874
parapherna1876
clobber1879
threads1926
mocker1939
schmatte1959
vine1959
kit1989
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 217 (MED) Man is i-bore wiþ oute eny helynge [?a1475 anon tr. couerenge; L. tegumento], naked and bare.
?c1430 (?1382) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 519 Ynowȝ for liflode and heling.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 43 Fode and heling hauing, wiþ hem I schal be content.
a1500 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Douce) l. 108 (MED) Bare was þe body..on hide, ne on huwe, no heling hit hadde.
c. gen. Something which serves as a covering, as a coverlet or blanket. As a mass noun: bedclothes. Obsolete (English regional in later use).
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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xvii. 199 Þan gadir þou [þat] þe lippis be a maner helinges [L. tegmina] and kouerers of teeþ.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 6178 Shippes hij habbeþ yhote pirates; Jn þe water ben her gates... Abouen and byneþen is her helyng.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 11 The heling [1489 Adv. helyng] of thar hede That vikkit vyntir had thame revede.
1543 Will of John Mors (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/29) f. 141 Fetherbedde, a bolster..twoo blankettes a Helyng a matres.
1618 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 48 A best bed, flockboulster, a flock pillow, a paire of blankettes and a healing.
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 24 A Bed-Healing (Derb.), a coverlet: it is also called absolutely a Hylling in many places.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Healing, a coverlet; a counterpane. In the will of Rev. H. Marshall, he leaves ‘2 pillowberes and a healing’.
1901 G. Gardner in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 111/2 [E. Kent] It is very cold, will you have some more healing put on your bed?
d. The cover of a book; the binding. Obsolete (English regional (south-western and west midlands) in later use.)
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society > communication > book > parts of book > [noun] > cover
forel1393
surpelc1440
covering1459
coverturea1475
heeling1498
lid1585
cover1599
binding1648
book cover1649
case1750
album cover1839
bookcase1885
1498 Will of Sir John Whytmor (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/11) f. 167 My portouse wt a rede helyng.
1853 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 8 44/2 Another Devonianism. The Cover of a book is called its healing.
1875 Wesleyan-Methodist Mag. Aug. 712 The writer has been asked to procure for an applicant a book with a red heling, that is, a book bound in red.
1895 T. Pinnock Black Country Ann. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 111/2 They brought ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’ back wi' booth the eelins off.
Compounds
C1.
heeling in n. Horticulture the action or practice of setting a plant in the ground and covering its roots with soil, straw, etc., as a temporary measure before replanting.
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1866 G. Husmann Cultiv. Native Grape 36 Heeling in may be done as shown in figure 2, laying the vines as close in the rows as they can conveniently be laid, and then fill the trench with well-pulverized soil.
1913 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) No. 9. 345 The constant wounding of plants, due to careless planting, ‘heeling in’, grass-cutting machines injuring roots, pruning, &c.
2001 Your Garden Jan. 105/1 Trees and shrubs that were planted in autumn may need heeling in if the frost has lifted the root ball out of the ground.
heeling over n. Horticulture (now rare) the action or practice of setting a plant in the ground and covering its roots with soil, straw, etc., as a temporary measure before replanting; = heeling in n.Often attributive, as heeling over method, heeling over process.
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1882 Gardeners' Chron. 28 Oct. 558/2 Unless the winter be a severe one, the ‘heeling-over’ process is..labour wasted.
1892 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 6 Nov. 15/3 Where the heeling over of late Broccoli plants has been delayed, the work should now be done promptly.
1947 Gardeners' Chron. 13 Dec. 207 The heeling-over method,..as carried out in very bleak districts, in the north of England and in Scotland, is much the best plan.
C2. † heeling coster n. Obsolete a hanging used to cover something; cf. coster n.1† heeling net n. Obsolete a kind of fishing net used on the Thames.† heeling stone n. Obsolete (English regional (southern) in later use) a slate roofing tile; slate for roofing tiles.
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1447 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 131 All my..helyng Costurs of hallys.
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1558–9 Act 1 Elizabeth I c. 17 Preamble in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 378 No person..withe any maner of..Trollnett Trimmenet Trymebote Stalbote Weblyster..or..any Heling Nett or Trymle Bote..shall take and kyll any yong Broode Spawne or Frye of Eeles Salmon Pyke or Pyckerell.
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1427 Foreign Accts. (Public Rec. Office) 61 (MED) Petr. voc. helyng stones.
a1472 in J. J. Wilkinson Receipts & Expenses Bodmin Church (1875) 20 (MED) Item, y paiede for vj Mill. helyng stones..xvj s.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 6v For couering of houses there are three sorts of Slate, which from that vse take the name of Healing-stones.
1670 Churchwardens' Acct. in Sussex Archæol. Coll. (1903) 46 99 Paid..to Walter Burt of West Grinsted for too load of heeling stone.
1746 in J. Maclean Parochial & Family Hist. Trigg Minor (1876) II. 406 The Parsonage house is built with stone and covered with heling Stones.
1889 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Field Club 10 189 The roof, perhaps, looks as if, with the vast weight of heling stones, its thrust must be too great.
1908 M. E. Macartney Recent Eng. Domest. Archit. 24/1 The roofs were covered with old tiles and old Horsham ‘heeling’ stone.
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heelingn.2
/ˈhiːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhilɪŋ/ 1. concrete.† a. The part of a stocking, shoe, etc., which encloses a person's heel; a covering for the heel. Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > parts of > other
shanka1547
heelc1571
heeling1591
stocking-sole1607
scogger1615
calfa1658
stocking top1664
seama1825
rig1838
ladder-stop1931
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 213 His hose broken high aboue the heeling.
1718 J. B. Weston Abstr. Doctr. Jesus-Christ ii. 102 He who has leave to wear Shooes, must take care not to wear them any longer than Necessity requires; and that he proceed therein by Degrees, that is, if Heelings suffice, not to wear Leggings, if Leggings not to wear Socks, [etc.].
1905 Delineator Dec. 1039/2 Her ankles were in trim thick woollen stockings, which in their turn were thrust into soft old Oxfords out of which the heeling had been cut for ease.
b. Nautical. The square lower end of a topmast or topgallant mast, containing a hole through which a fid (fid n. 2) is passed.
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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. 29 The heeling is to be square.
1821 J. Fincham Introd. Outl. Pract. Ship-Building 149 The heeling is fastened with nails.
1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy 30 Heeling is the square part of the spar through which the fid hole is cut.
1955 C. N. Longridge Anat. Nelson's Ships xi. 177 The idea of the heeling appears to be to expand this part of the mast which lies between the trestle trees, so that it shall fill the space, otherwise the foot of the mast would be free to swing about a little.
2014 W. L. Crothers Masting of Amer. Merchant Sail 1850s vii. 81/1 In the final trim the eight-square, from the heeling to the lower end of the rounds, is converted to round and the heeling and head are chamfered on the corners.
2. The action of heel v.3 (in various senses); an instance of this.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
scrimmaging1776
throw on1845
rush1857
catch1858
maul1860
touch1863
mauling1864
touch-in-goal1869
goal-kicking1871
throw-forward1871
sidestepping1877
handing1882
punting1882
heel1886
touch kicking1889
forward pass1890
scrumming1892
touch-finding1895
heeling1896
wheel1897
scrag1903
reverse pass1907
jinka1914
hand-off1916
play-the-ball1918
gather1921
pivot pass1922
sidestep1927
smother-tackle1927
stiff-arm1927
heel-back1929
scissors1948
rucking1949
loose scrummaging1952
cut-through1960
pivot break1960
put-in1962
chip kicking1963
box kicking1971
peel1973
chip and chase1976
tap penalty1976
1709 R. Howlett Royal Pastime Cock-fighting 64 (heading) Of the Heeling of Game-Cocks.
?1712 M. Smith Mem. Mint & Queen's-bench ix. 21 Their Wives..humbly content themselves with Stalls of Gingerbread, Apples, and Cabbages; or with the Heeling of old Hose.
1849 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 15 Dec. 104/1 ‘Polka’ steps, with stampings and slidings, and hoppings and heelings.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xx. 78 She'll know nothin' o' narrowin' an' heelin', I warrand.
1896 Daily News 21 Feb. 3/5 There was none of the fashionable heeling-out for your Yorkshire forward.
1910 Boot & Shoe Recorder 7 Sept. 11/2 There are a number of minor processes, but the heeling is exceedingly important, because a badly placed heel..would destroy the symmetry of the best shoe.
1963 Times 14 Feb. 3/4 They were helped, it is true, by the quicker heeling, although perhaps hindered by their stand-off half's unwillingness to part with the ball until too late.
2005 J. Volhard & W. Volhard Dog Training For Dummies (ed. 2) i. xiii.112 Heeling is used for walking your dog in traffic—when you need absolute control—and for competitive obedience events.
Phrases
heeling and toeing n. (in a motor vehicle) the action or technique of working two pedals (usually the brake and accelerator) simultaneously with the heel and toe of one foot, in order to maintain speed when taking corners, changing to a lower gear, etc.; cf. to heel and toe at heel v.3 Phrases b.
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1966 R. Maxwell in T. Wisdom High-performance Driving viii. 72 Heeling and toeing..involves double-declutching into a lower gear while braking.
1974 Washington Post 12 Nov. (Advertising Suppl.) 9/7 The curved throttle pedal, made especially to promote heeling and toeing.
2015 Sc. Star (Nexis) 7 June The pedals are well spaced for heeling and toeing, too.
Compounds
heeling dog n. Australian and New Zealand (now rare) a dog trained or bred to drive animals by running or nipping at their heels; a heeler (heeler n.2 6a).
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1878 Maitland (New S. Wales) Mercury 19 Feb. 1/4 Mr. John Hughes' famous heeling dog ‘Forester’.
1947 P. Newton Wayleggo 101 Jim had the severest heeling dog I have seen.
heeling machine n. a machine for attaching the heel to a boot or shoe.
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1867 Boston Daily Advertiser 9 Sept. There will be a Special Meeting of the shareholders of the McKay Heeling Machine Co.
1873 Boston Daily Globe 3 July 2/2 The shoe machinery from Boston is continually surrounded by a crowd of wondering Teutons. The same may be said of Bigelow's heeling machines from Providence, R. I.
1987 Industry Wage Surv.: Men's & Women's Footwear 1986 (U.S. Dept. Labor) 66/1 Heeling-machine operator.
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heelingn.3
/ˈhiːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhilɪŋ/ Nautical.
In a boat or ship: the action of leaning or listing to one side. Cf. heel v.2 1.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [noun] > heeling or listing
careen1591
heel1622
heeling1625
list1633
seel1644
seeling1644
hield1867
1625 J. Layfield in S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. vi. iii. 1174 The hugenesse of this Sea was perceiued not onely by the view of our sight, but rather by the extraordinarie heeling of our ship.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 283 When it doth lean too much on one side: or doth turn too much on each side..Heeling..Rolling.
1785 B. Franklin Let. Aug. in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. (1786) 2 306 In heeling they are not so subject to take in water as our boats.
1885 Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 11/1 The heeling occurs only in strong whole-sail winds.
1922 Motor Boat (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 56/2 The midship section shows extra heavy scantlings, a form that is powerful enough to prevent excessive heeling and yet give a fairly easy roll.
1974 N.Y. Times 29 Sept. 16/8 If the gust is a particularly strong one, spill some wind from the sail while heading up, to reduce heeling.
1990 T. Cunliffe Easy on Helm i. 10 It will also tend to bring the yacht more upright and lessen the tendency to luff due to heeling.
Compounds
C1. attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, or affecting the heeling of a vessel’; as heeling angle, heeling curve, heeling position, heeling pump, heeling tank, etc.
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1752 A. Cobin Short & Plain Princ. Linear Perspective xii. 56 A Ship..in a heeling Position by the Effects of the Wind or Water.
1870 F. J. O. Evans Elem. Man. Deviations Compass in Iron Ships x. 93 This generally throws the point of intersection of the heeling curves to the north of east and to the north of west.
1882 W. H. White Lect. Turning Powers .Ships 29 The effect on the heeling would be felt especially in small vessels, where the arm of the heeling couple is small.
1949 Arctic May 75/2 As with the U.S. ice-breakers the Canadian vessel will be fitted with heeling tanks.
1992 Marine Engineers Rev. Nov. 14/1 The traffic control centre on the main deck is linked to a ballast and heeling pump.
2010 R. Crawford & J. Crawford Black Feathers vi. 36 I distributed some of the inside weight around to keep the heeling angle of the boat reasonably comfortable.
C2.
heeling error n. a deviation in a vessel's compass needle due to heeling.Heeling errors are usually caused by the shifting positions of adjacent ferrous metal objects in relation to the compass card, which remains level to the horizon by means of its gimbals (gimbal n. 4).
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1862 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 3 72 Where a heeling error exists it may be corrected by a vertical magnet placed immediately above or below the centre of the needle.
1893 Standard 15 Mar. 3/5 Comparatively few compasses are properly adjusted for heeling error.
1997 Cruising World Jan. 48/3 Any heeling error will be shown by the change in compass heading.
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heelingadj.
/ˈhiːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhilɪŋ/ Nautical.
1.
a. Of a boat or ship: that leans or lists to one side. Cf. heel v.2 1.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > listing
heeling1780
listing1923
1780 ‘N. Ward Jr.’ Comforts Matrimony viii. 23 Full many a Ship..Was sav'd.., The heeling Vessel gaily propt.., till some near port..has claim'd her.
1838 W. N. Glascock Land Sharks & Sea Gulls II. iii. vi. 228 The heeling vessel yielding to the sudden gust.
1884 N.Y. Times 18 July 1/4 The immense icebergs glistening in the light of a night sun, the heeling ship, testifying to the power of the moving floe.
1975 Field & Stream Aug. 79/3 I've seen cameramen hang outboard of a heeling boat, held there only by toe straps.
2016 B. Maddox Phoenician Symbol 349 Would you rather be safe and dry down below, or..clinging to frozen rigging on a heeling ship to set the sails?
b. That causes heeling.
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1805 S. J. Pratt Hail Fellow! Well Met! v. v, in Harvest-home II. 211 If we pick them up, we'll e'en take 'em in tow: they'll serve well enough for ballast, this heeling weather.
1873 Iron 19 Apr. 435/2 There must exist..a considerable heeling force, producing inclination towards the side on which the rudder is put over.
1932 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 23 Sept. 1018 The tanks or air-cases prevent the water from moving too far into the wings of the boat, thus reducing the heeling effect.
1985 Cruising World Mar. 120/2 The heeling force on a boat is primarily the wind, which presses against a boat's sails, hull and deck gear to make it tip.
2006 J. M. Pallis in R. Bartlett et al. Encycl. Internat. Sports Stud. II. 635/1 The keel produces a force that opposes the heeling force of the sail.
2. In extended use. That leans or lists, as a ship might in water.In quot. 1863 as part of an extended metaphor.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > leaning over > to one side
one-sided1826
heeling1863
1863 Illustr. Times 21 Nov. 330/2 Always rolling your Sisyphus stone up hill to bring down the heeling vessel to its level.
1968 Hudson Rev. 21 301 I rise to the taut blue of kites, leaned out over the heeling town.
a1973 W. H. Auden In Year of my Youth in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1978) Aug. 308 That my words may not lie Dry-docked in mud, heeling and helpless, But floated on memories flooding up.
2003 N. Rush Mortals xii. 129 A front drive flanked on one side by a tall, heeling hedge.
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