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Definition of Iron heel
1. Noun. An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iron Heel
Literary usage of Iron heel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Francis Parkman's Works by Francis Parkman (1906)
"listened to the rugged psalmody of the Puritan, the solitudes of Western New York
and the stern wilderness of Lake Huron were trodden by the iron heel of ..."
2. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... iron heel of conqueror not crushing people—German desire to make country
self-supporting—Belgians passive but ..."
3. Our Hawaii by Charmian London (1917)
"he repeated his wail of nine years earlier at Pearl Lochs when "The iron heel"
had been rejected of men. "Of course I like Army women — just as I like other ..."
4. Estimating Frame and Brick Houses: Barns, Stables, Factories and Outbuildings by Fred T. Hodgson (1910)
"An Old Time Stable with C<ut iron heel Posts. work in a frame building. These facts
being known and understood by the estimator, he will be able to arrive ..."
5. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"Before me, as I write with his own pen, lies a clipping referring to "The Iron
Heel," which begins: "In one of Jack London's less important works, ..."
6. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"But it is unnecessary to give the terrible story of these unsuccessful attempts
of the people to thwart or check the advancing despotism of the iron heel. ..."
7. Francis Parkman's Works by Francis Parkman (1906)
"listened to the rugged psalmody of the Puritan, the solitudes of Western New York
and the stern wilderness of Lake Huron were trodden by the iron heel of ..."
8. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"... iron heel of conqueror not crushing people—German desire to make country
self-supporting—Belgians passive but ..."
9. Our Hawaii by Charmian London (1917)
"he repeated his wail of nine years earlier at Pearl Lochs when "The iron heel"
had been rejected of men. "Of course I like Army women — just as I like other ..."
10. Estimating Frame and Brick Houses: Barns, Stables, Factories and Outbuildings by Fred T. Hodgson (1910)
"An Old Time Stable with C<ut iron heel Posts. work in a frame building. These facts
being known and understood by the estimator, he will be able to arrive ..."
11. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"Before me, as I write with his own pen, lies a clipping referring to "The Iron
Heel," which begins: "In one of Jack London's less important works, ..."
12. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"But it is unnecessary to give the terrible story of these unsuccessful attempts
of the people to thwart or check the advancing despotism of the iron heel. ..."
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