heelpiece
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Courts are to be the theatres of your wars, where you should be always as completely armed , and even with the addition of a heelpiece."
- "[H]e pulled out a little wooden stool, an' stud up upon it, and dipped a little piggen into the pitcher, an' tuk out the full av it, an' put it beside the stool, an' thin sot down undher the pitcher, an' begun to work at puttin' a heelpiece an a bit iv a brogue jist fittin' fur himsilf."
- "the heel-piece of his book"