How to pronounce “heel”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
• The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
• The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.
• The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.
• (usually in the plural) A high-heeled shoe.
• (firearms) The back, upper part of the stock.
• (music) The thickening of the neck of a stringed instrument where it attaches to the body.
• The last or lowest part of anything.
• (US, Ireland, Scotland, Australia) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
• (US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.
• (informal, synecdochically) A contemptible, unscrupulous, inconsiderate, or thoughtless person.
• (by extension, slang, professional wrestling) A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.
• (card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.
• Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.
• (architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.
• (specifically, US) The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
• (architecture, obsolete) A cyma reversa.
• (carpentry) The short side of an angled cut.
• (golf) The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.
• The lower end of the bit (cutting edge) of an axehead, as opposed to the toe (upper end).
• The part of a carding machine's flat nearest the cylinder.
• (nautical) The junction between the keel and the stempost of a vessel; an angular wooden join connecting the two.
• (metallurgy) Material stored in a smelting furnace between batches
• [Verb]
• To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
• To cause to follow at somebody’s heels (transitive).
• To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).
• To kick with the heel.
• (transitive) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.
• (transitive) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
• (golf, transitive) To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
• (American football, transitive) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
• (US, intransitive) At Yale University, to work as a heeler or student journalist.

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