Heel

Noun



 * 1)  Part of the foot on the backside where it becomes the leg.
 * 2) The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
 * 3) On a long firearm, the back upper part of the stock.
 * 4) The last or lowest part of anything; as, the heel of a mast or the heel of a vessel.
 * 5) 🇺🇸 A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
 * 6) A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.
 * 7)  The tilt of a ship to one side; also, angle of heel, the degree of such a tilt.

Derived terms

 * Achilles heel
 * cool one's heels
 * dig in one's heels
 * down at heel


 * heelside
 * high-heels
 * Tar Heel


 * stiletto heel
 * spike heel
 * well-heeled

Verb

 * 1) To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
 * 2) To add a heel to, or increase the size of the hell (a shoe or boot).
 * 3) To kick with the heel.

Verb

 * 1)  To incline to one side, to tilt (especially of ships).

Adjectives for Heel
hindermost; unmesmerized; official; wavering; hoofed; despotic; miry; flying; cloven; heavy.

Verbs for Heel
blister—; click—s; clutch at—s; cool— crush with—; drive—into; hang up by—s squat on—s; trample beneath—; — clatter — kick up dust.

Thesaurus
SOB, accouter, afterpart, afterpiece, appoint, arch, arm, back, back door, back seat, back side, balance, bastard, bear off, bedog, behind, bend, blackguard, bounder, branch off, breech, broke, bugger, cad, cant, careen, change the bearing, chase, clubfoot, come about, come after, come behind, counter, creep, crust, curve, depart from, destitute, detour, deviate, digit, digress, divagate, divaricate, diverge, dog, dowdy, dress, end, equip, escape, extremity, fantail, fart, fetch about, fetlock, fit, fit out, fit up, flee, fly the coop, follow, foot, forefoot, forepaw, furnish, gear, go about, go after, go behind, harefoot, hind end, hind part, hindhead, hood, hoof, hooligan, hound, impoverished, in straitened circumstances, incline, instep, jerk, knave, lay down, lean, lean over, leavings, lie along, list, louse, lowlife, man, meanie, miscreant, mother, move behind, munition, occiput, out at elbows, outfit, pad, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pes, philanderer, pied, pill, pivot, pivot about, poop, poor, posterior, postern, prepare, pug, pursue, put about, rascal, rat, rear, rear end, rearward, recline, remainder, remains, remnant, residual, residue, residuum, rest, reverse, rig, rig out, rig up, rind, rogue, rotter, round, rudderpost, run away, run off, run-down, scamp, scoundrel, seedy, shabby, shadow, sheer, shift, shit, shithead, shitheel, slope, slovenly, sod, sole, spin, splayfoot, split, staff, stern, stinkard, stinker, strapped, string along, stump, swerve, swine, swing, swing round, swivel, tack, tag, tag after, tag along, tail, tail end, tailgate, tailpiece, take flight, tilt, tip, toe, tootsy, trail, trail after, tread close upon, trend, trotter, turd, turn, turn about, turn around, turn aside, turn out, turn round, turn tail, ungula, vary, veer, veer around, wheel, wheel about, whirl, worm

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1
hele:, heel:, from hēla, from  (cf. Dutch hiel, Swedish häl), diminutive of. More at.

Etymology 2
From Old English hyldan:, cognate with Old Norse hella: ( > Danish hælde:).

Noun

 * Arabic: عقب,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: taló
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 腳跟, 脚跟, 後跟, 后跟
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: afɔkpodzi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: pyta
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: tumit, tumit kaki
 * Interlingua: calce, talon
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ヒール


 * Korean: 발뒤꿈치 (balduekkumchi)
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: papēdis
 * Lithuanian: kulnas
 * Macedonian: петица,
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: (pāšna or pāšne)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, (rare, poetic)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: peta
 * Sicilian: caccagnu
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మడమ
 * Tupinambá: pytá
 * Turkish: topuk
 * Urdu:
 * Volapük: hil
 * Zulu: isithende


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: taló
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ヒール
 * Macedonian: потпетица
 * Maltese: takkuna
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: پاشنه کفش
 * Portuguese: tacão,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: потпетица
 * Roman: potpetica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Italian:


 * Swahili:


 * Catalan: crostó
 * Finnish: kantapala, ,
 * French: ,
 * German: Knust
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: крајче
 * Norwegian: skalk
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Dutch: op de hielen zitten
 * French: talonner
 * German: (jemandem) auf den Fersen sein (with dative)


 * Macedonian: оди зад петици
 * Spanish: seguir de cerca, poner talón o tacón a
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Dutch: hellen (nautical)
 * German: krängen (nautical)
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: krenge
 * Nynorsk:


 * Swedish: kränga (nautical)

Anagrams

 * hele

Etymology
From *undefined:, from.

Adjective

 * 1) complete, full, whole

Synonyms

 * gans

Derived terms

 * geheel

Adverb

 * 1) very

Anagrams

 * hele