Crossword clues for heeling
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of heel English)
Wikipedia
Heeling may refer to:
- Heeling (sailing)
- A behavior in herding dogs
- A dog obedience training task
- A dog obedience trial exercise
- Part of a team roping rodeo event
Usage examples of "heeling".
She 176 fell in beside her mistress, heeling perfectly as Centaine started up towards the dais.
A flash, and it came out vividly, heeling over one way with two feet in the air, to vanish and reappear almost instantly as it seemed, with the next flash, a hundred yards nearer.
He sprang to his feet and saw to starboard, and not a hundred yards from their heeling, pitching boat, a vast iron bulk like the blade of a plough tearing through the water, tossing it on either side in huge waves of foam that leaped towards the steamer, flinging her paddles helplessly in the air, and then sucking her deck down almost to the waterline.
And reappeared in a double, whooping line, heeling their small, nimble-footed ponies down the rock-tumbled slope, passing close by Ryan and his friends, who leaped away from the flying hail of pebbles and whirling dust.
Heeling Stayer in the flanks, he trotted away from her without a word.
Vannier and Ferris to get into the lifeboat, called to McKinnon to cast off aft, and half-ran, half-stumbled up the heeling, slippery deck to where the girl and the soldier stood half-way between the aftercastle screen door and the ladder leading to the poop-deck above.
At the same time he heard and felt the larger twenty-four-pounder cannon on the lower gundeck explode in a single broadside, heeling the ship with their recoil.
The aircar was caught by a backdraft and thrown into a dive, heeling over to head groundward at tremendous speed.
The crumhorns pattered on the small moonlit breeze, and all around him, boots, sandals, and soft, loose slippers trod down the wiry grass, skipping and heeling through the same paces that the dancing queen of England had loved once.
The gunships shed velocity by heeling over and using their repulsorlift engines like retrothrusters.
Outside, the other two gunships from the flight were heeling around, turrets sparking as their laser cannons tracked toward him.
George lectured on heeling, luffing, running, blanketing, backwinding, heading up, trimming and pointing.
Each private earned a shilling a day, seventeen pounds and sixteen shillings a year, but by the time he had been deducted for food, for washing, for pipeclay and blackball, for soling and heeling, and the one day's pay each year that went to the Military hospitals at Chelsea and Kilmainham, each man was left with the three sevens.
Electricity winked and bammed around us as the rain came in silvery, wind-whipped sheets, heeling us to starboard, obscuring the far markers.
At the same time, on the opposite side of the Rebel ironclad, shells smashed into Carondelet, heeling her starboard deck underwater and flooding her gun deck.