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Definition of Heeltaps
1. heeltap [n] - See also: heeltap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heeltaps
Literary usage of Heeltaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"Take off your heeltaps ; ' drink what is left before you refill. Heft, to lift.
' Heft un;' lift it. Heft, weight. ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"heeltaps, the wine or liquor at the bottom of the glass. ' Take off your heeltaps ; '
drink what is left before you refill. Heft, to lift. ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County by W[illiam] F[rancis] Shaw, W. D. Parish, John White Masters (1887)
"heeltaps, the wine or liquor at the bottom of the glass. ' Take off your heeltaps ; '
drink what is left before you refill. Heft, to lift. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Isle of Wight Dialect, and of Provincialisms Used in the by William Henry Long (1886)
"Don't leave noo heeltaps. "—Empty your glasses. HEFT. Weight; also to lift
anything, so as to try the weight of it. "Jest heft it, wull'ee you. ..."
5. The American Bibliopolist (1874)
"heeltaps, therefore, are the residuum of liquid in an almost empty cask, and,
... No heeltaps " is, both in form and in meaning, equivalent to "no leavings. ..."
6. A Book about the Garden and the Gardener by Samuel Reynolds Hole (1892)
"... with three times three") requesting them to drink without heeltaps (the Latinity
for heeltaps is lost*), ..."
7. Secular annotations on Scripture texts by Francis Jacox (1871)
"No shirking was allowed ; " no daylight," " no heeltaps,"1 was what Dean Ramsay
calls the wretched jargon in which were expressed the propriety and the duty ..."
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