Crossword clues for heeled
heeled
- Was an obedient dog
- Well-__ (rich)
- Well- -- (wealthy)
- Was an obedient dog, in a way
- Walked like a good dog
- Walked alongside one's master
- Tilted, at sea
- Repaired, as some shoes
- Obeyed on a leash
- Obeyed a dog command
- Obeyed a canine command
- Like much formal footwear
- Followed, as a dog
- Followed closely, dog-style
- Followed closely, as a dog
- Followed closely as a dog
- Well-_____ (rich)
- Like shoes
- Followed orders
- Followed obediently
- Followed, as a dog its master
- Followed closely, like a dog
- Well-to-do
- Well-___ (in the money)
- Listed
- Walked closely behind man, European went first
- In the money
- Did some cobbling
- Was a good dog
- Well-___ (rich)
- Was an obedient dog, perhaps
- Well-__ (affluent)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heel \Heel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Heeled; p. pr. & vb. n. Heeling.]
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To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like. [R.]
I cannot sing, Nor heel the high lavolt.
--Shak. To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.
To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.
(Golf) To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.
(Football) To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot advanced, the heel on the ground and the toe up.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"provided with money," 1880, American English Western slang, from earlier sense "furnished with a gun, armed" (1866), perhaps from still earlier sense "furnish (a gamecock) with a heel-like spur" (1560s), which was still in use 19c.; see heel (n.1).
Wiktionary
1 Having a heel (often specified, as in high-heeled etc.). 2 (context archaic English) prepared, especially armed with a weapon. v
(en-past of: heel)
Usage examples of "heeled".
There was a heavy clang, a thundering crash, the ship trembled, tilted, heeled, and slowly, painfully, settled back upright as Bade hung onto the desk and Runckel dove for cover.
The Biter heeled on the new slant, and the breeze struck colder from the larboard beam, laced with lumps of spray.
Ulrich hus lit her fag burn doon, and she drops it n stamps it oot, her heeled shoe twistin it intae the path.
With a screech and a cloud of dust, he pulled up in front of the Scrannel Dogge, heeled down the kickstand, and went inside to rent the common room for the space of the afternoon.
With a satisfying whomp sail went taut, and Sanneke heeled leeward, her bow suddenly slicing faster through the muddy waters of Galveston Bay.
He gave her a moment to settle her heavy skirts, though at best they bared her legs well above her soft, knee-high boots, then heeled the dapple to a canter.
She was in a different dress now, a full skirted blue silk shirtwaist, complimented by black, high heeled pumps.
Now she heeled slowly broadside in the channel entrance, firmly jammed in the floating gate while her stunsail and mizzen rigging became entangled in the tall mangrove that marked the far side.
Miami hauled her, stumbling in her heeled sandals, back along the fence.
They seemed to share my longing for my mother who already embodied for me the beauty of youth, who had the shiny-haired, smooth-cheeked vitality my grandparents did not have, who could do backbends and cartwheels and who owned high heeled shoes in fifteen colors who became ever more precious for her elusiveness.
A society goniff who reported the comings and goings of the heeled for a rotten two percent.
But a low beach, possibly formed by the recent overturning of the berg, received the Titan, and with her keel cutting the ice like the steel runner of an iceboat, and her great weight resting on the starboard bilge, she rose out of the sea, higher and higher --- until the propellers in the stern were half exposed --- then, meeting an easy, spiral rise in the ice under her port bow, she heeled, overbalanced, and crashed down on her side, to starboard.
But he twisted, heeled, and diverted his own stumbling weight so that they collapsed together, the ollave underneath, shoulder pinned to the floor.
He heeled the Palouse forward at a lope to find out what the shouting was all about, to see if a neighbor or a friend might be in trouble.
At the southern tip of the Urga peninsula, the steersman swung his tiller over, and the ship heeled sharply to port.