The Collaborative International Dictionary
Light-heeled
Light-heeled \Light"-heeled`\ (l[imac]t"h[=e]ld`), a. Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.
Usage examples of "light-heeled".
Thus cried, thus called aloud, to the child heart The magian East: thus the child eyes Spelled out the wizard message by the light Of the sober, workaday hours They saw, week in week out, pass, and still pass In the sleepy Minster City, folded kind In ancient Severn's arm, Amongst her water-meadows and her docks, Whose floating populace of ships - Galliots and luggers, light-heeled brigantines, Bluff barques and rake-hell fore-and-afters--brought To her very doorsteps and geraniums The scents of the World's End.