Meanings (ES + gloss)
calcañal • calcañar • calcaño • carcañal • carcaño • talón
The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, / His winged heels and then his armed head.
taco • tacón
The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.
pie
The last or lowest part of anything.
the heel of a mast
the heel of a vessel
corrusco • currusco • cuscurro • mendrugo
A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
Boiled mutton was in one, and the heel of a damper in another.
the heel of the white loaf
Phrases
Achilles heelAchilles' heelCuban heelFrench heelLouis heelParliamentary heelTar Heelat someone's heelsback-heelbackheelbootheelbring someone to heelbring to heelcool one's heelscouldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heelcowheeldig in one's heelsdown at heeldown at the heeldown at the heelsdown in the heeldown in the heelsdown-at-heeldown-at-the-heeldown-at-the-heelsfree-heel skiinghead over heelsheadless over heelsheel barheel boneheel flipheel hookheel liftheel overheel pad syndromeheel palmheel ringheel stickheel strikeheel turn
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
poner tacón a • poner talón a • seguir de cerca
To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.
She called to her dog to heel.
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escorar
To incline to one side; to tilt.
The faster a ship sails, the better she will answer her helm; if she sail very slow, she will scarce steer at all. If she heel much, she won't answer the helm so well.
Phrases
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