Heel vs. Worm

Heelnoun

(anatomy) The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.

Heelnoun

The part of a shoe's sole which supports the foot's heel.

Heelnoun

The rear part of a sock or similar covering for the foot.

Heelnoun

The part of the palm of a hand closest to the wrist.

Heelnoun

(usually plural) A woman's high-heeled shoe.

Heelnoun

(firearms) The back, upper part of the stock.

Heelnoun

The last or lowest part of anything.

Heelnoun

A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.

Heelnoun

(US) The base of a bun sliced in half lengthwise.

Heelnoun

A contemptible, inconsiderate or thoughtless person.

Heelnoun

A headlining wrestler regarded as a "bad guy," whose ring persona embodies villainous or reprehensible traits and demonstrates characteristics of a braggart and a bully.

Heelnoun

(card games) The cards set aside for later use in a patience or solitaire game.

Heelnoun

Anything resembling a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

Heelnoun

(architecture) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter.

Heelnoun

The obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.

Heelnoun

A cyma reversa.

Heelnoun

(carpentry) The short side of an angled cut.

Heelnoun

(golf) The part of a club head's face nearest the shaft.

Heelnoun

In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.

Heelnoun

The act of inclining or canting from a vertical position; a cant.

Heelverb

To follow at somebody's heels; to chase closely.

Heelverb

To add a heel to, or increase the size of the heel of (a shoe or boot).

Heelverb

To kick with the heel.

Heelverb

(transitive) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, etc.

Heelverb

(transitive) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.

Heelverb

To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.

Heelverb

To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot forward, the heel on the ground and the toe up.

Heelverb

To incline to one side; to tilt.

Heelverb

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

Heelverb

To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like.

Heelverb

To add a heel to; as, to heel a shoe.

Heelverb

To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting.

Heelverb

To hit (the ball) with the heel of the club.

Heelverb

To make (a fair catch) standing with one foot advanced, the heel on the ground and the toe up.

Heelnoun

The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; - in man or quadrupeds.

Heelnoun

The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.

Heelnoun

The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part.

Heelnoun

Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob.

Heelnoun

The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests

Heelnoun

Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.

Heelnoun

The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.

Heelnoun

The part of the face of the club head nearest the shaft.

Heelnoun

In a carding machine, the part of a flat nearest the cylinder.

Heelnoun

the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground

Heelnoun

the back part of the human foot

Heelnoun

someone who is morally reprehensible;

Heelnoun

one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread

Heelnoun

the lower end of a ship's mast

Heelnoun

(golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft

Heelnoun

the piece of leather that fits the heel

Heelverb

tilt to one side;

Heelverb

follow at the heels of a person

Heelverb

perform with the heels;

Heelverb

strike with the heel of the club;

Heelverb

put a new heel on;

Heel

The heel is the prominence at the posterior end of the foot. It is based on the projection of one bone, the calcaneus or heel bone, behind the articulation of the bones of the lower leg.

Wormnoun

A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.

Wormnoun

More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.

Wormnoun

(archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent.

Wormnoun

Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.

Wormnoun

A contemptible or devious being.

Wormnoun

(computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.

Wormnoun

(cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.

Wormnoun

Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.

Wormnoun

A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

Wormnoun

The spiral wire of a corkscrew.

Wormnoun

(anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.

Wormnoun

The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.

Wormnoun

A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.

Wormnoun

(obsolete) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.

Wormnoun

(figuratively) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.

Wormnoun

(math) A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.

Wormnoun

(anatomy) The lytta.

Wormnoun

A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.

Wormverb

(transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.

Wormverb

(intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.

Wormverb

To work one's way by artful or devious means.

Wormverb

To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.

Wormverb

To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.

Wormverb

To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).

Wormverb

To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.

Wormverb

(transitive) To deworm (an animal).

Wormverb

(transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.

Wormverb

(transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

Wormnoun

A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.

Wormnoun

Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.

Wormnoun

An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.

Wormnoun

A being debased and despised.

Wormnoun

Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm

Wormnoun

A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.

Wormverb

To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.

Wormverb

To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; - often followed by out.

Wormverb

To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).

Wormverb

To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.

Wormverb

To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

Wormnoun

any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

Wormnoun

a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

Wormnoun

a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network;

Wormnoun

screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack

Wormverb

to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling);

Worm

Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes. Worms vary in size from microscopic to over 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length for marine polychaete worms (bristle worms), 6.7 metres (22 ft) for the African giant earthworm, Microchaetus rappi, and 58 metres (190 ft) for the marine nemertean worm (bootlace worm), Lineus longissimus.