What is "bootheel"

Usage examples of "bootheel".

He sat thinking, one bootheel cocked up on the rail of the rectory porch.

Mikel kicked open the door, smashing the lock with his bootheel, in time to see their fleeing backs.

I dug out of the carcasses, the print of a bootheel near that pile of entrails, and only one shell casing, which tells me the rest were picked up.

The champion of Adeln kicked a bootheel against the floor, and then took two running steps and kicked out hard with that foot.

The bosun cursed and hammered the lip of a panel with his bootheel to free it.

I warned, but his bootheel smashed the central crossbrace from the door, flinging jagged fragments into the room.

Roland could hear his bootheels clopping on the sidewalk, however, and could see the shadows they were casting in the light of the display windows.

Again and again his bootheels made that fist-on-coffintop sound, but now it had rhythm.

Alasdair paced back and forth before the hearth, the sound of his bootheels harsh on the marble floor.

He pretended to be busy talking to Cind, but his ears were full of the low rumble of voices, and then the clatter of bootheels on the decking.

Orders were shouted, drills were held, accompanied by the clashing of bootheels and the clanking of weapons.

Two worn bootheels they could see, standing on emptiness, and above that a man-sized bulk of gray dust so thick it looked like fur, joined to the ceiling and walls by lazy, dusty arcs of cobwebs that must be as thick as ropes.

Trouble grinned back, unable to keep from enjoying his uncertainty, and crossed the lobby, her bootheels echoing when they hit the strips of marble between the islands of carpet, to fetch up at the reception desk.

Ryan, leading them off, his bootheels ringing uncomfortably loudly on the stone floor.

Her bootheels made no sound on the restful, absorbent tile, which irritated her further.