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heeltap en · NOUN

Etymology

From heel + tap.

Meanings

1. A piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe.
2. (dated) A small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass.
   • "He's a good fellow, anyway, if he is a teetotaler!" "Drink his health!" "Give him a rouser, and no heeltaps!" 1894, Mark Twain, “Chapter 11”, in Pudd'nhead Wilson:
   • A heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it! So fill me a bumper, a bumper of Claret! Let the bottle pass freely, don't shirk it nor spare it, For a heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it. 1815, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall:
   • We had the heeltaps of bottles as well, so that we often drank too much—a good thing, for one seemed to work faster when partially drunk. 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

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Translations (3)

ga preabán sáile (piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe) · sv slatt (A small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass) · pl flek (piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe)

heeltap en · VERB

Etymology

From heel + tap.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.).

Forms