Lexicographical Neighbors of Heelplates
Literary usage of Heelplates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"It is not a bad plan to have recoil heelplates fitted to all rifles from '450 to
4 bores. They save the shoulder very much when firing large charges. ..."
2. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1907)
"... noe, made up from galvanised iron, or from plain sheet iron, and then galvanised.
Japanned, and lacquered metalware. heelplates, and toe ..."
3. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1875)
"I was continually chopping and changing, inventing fresh heelplates to the '
stocks.' I would have a thick one of horn for a thin coat, and a thin one of ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"He set there and took his own time to unscrew his heelplates and cut out his
plugs and stick in the di'monds and screw on his plates again. ..."
5. Bas-reliefs from the Temple of Rameses I at Abydos by Herbert Eustis Winlock (1921)
"... the heelplates of each sabaton. Eyelets of copper-gilt, inserted in twin holes
in the metal of the plates themselves (three pairs in the back waist lame ..."
6. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Virgil, Charles Anthon, C. Knipe, New York (State). Banking Dept, Emerson Willard Keyes, Mark Twain, Claire Giannini Hoffman (1899)
"He set there and took his own time to unscrew his heelplates and cut out his
plugs and stick in the di'monds and screw on his plates again. ..."
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