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iron heel

n. an instrument of torture that is used to crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, iron boot]

Usage examples of "iron heel".

With iron hand and iron heel it mastered the surging millions, out of confusion brought order, out of the very chaos wrought its own foundation and structure.

Possibly the most bloodthirsty and malignant of all the mercenaries that ever served the Iron Heel, he was informed by the Fighting Groups that they had tried him, found him guilty, and condemned him to death—.

Among the travellers in my Pullman was comrade Hartman, like myself in the secret service of the Iron Heel.

It is quite clear that she intended the Manuscript for immediate publication, as soon as the Iron Heel was overthrown, so that her husband, so recently dead, should receive full credit for all that he had ventured and accomplished.

We took our place at once as agents-provocateurs in the scheme of the Iron Heel.

The last place in the world the spies of the Iron Heel would dream of looking for me, and for Ernest when he joined me, was Wickson's deer-park.

Garthwaite did the talking at first, but I was compelled to undergo a brief examination to prove service with the Iron Heel.

Often and often had the Iron Heel been dumbfounded by the miscarriage of its plans and operations against us.

The iron heel plates of the officers' boots sounded on the floors, harsh and metallic.

Alone, the High Lord stood and faced the dark encampment of Satansfist's hordes-stood below the snapping Furl, which was already ragged in the sharp wind, planted the iron heel of his staff on the stone, and faced the encircling enemy as if his were the hand which held the outcome of the siege.

She stamped the iron heel of the Staff of Law on the floor, and at once blue fire burst from its length.

Shivering with rage, Drool jabbed the iron heel of the Staff against Tuvor's body.

He struck the stone with his staff so that its iron heel rang, and sprang to his work.