Crossword clues for heeler
heeler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heeler \Heel"er\, n.
A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.
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A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. [Political Cant, U. S.]
The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.
--The Century.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs. 2 A quick runner. 3 (context US slang politics dated English) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "heeler".
In the end, and after much ostentatious opposition on the part of the railroad heelers, Lyman was nominated and subsequently elected.
He had been seventeen years in New York, and now a talk of Tammany and its chances in the next election, of pulls and deals, of bosses and heelers, grew up between the civic step-brothers, and joined them is a common interest.
And I—I'm playing with cobblestones and shingling a roof, while a transcontinental railroad system is collapsing in the hands of congenital ward heelers.
You are likely to remain a two-bit, or at best a four-bit, ward heeler the rest of your life.
A businessman says that he can deliver the goods, and a ward heeler says that he can deliver the vote, is that right?
His appearance, a big-city ward heeler had once told him, worked for him.
The dumbest ward heeler was smart enough to know that time, no matter what else it did, passed, and that the school boy of today was the voter of tomorrow.
The Alderman waited and his ward heeler motioned that they should drink.
For all the ghosts that supposedly haunted the man, his motivations were as apparent as those of the lowest ward heeler on Tarsonis.