Словарь синонимов английского языка - heel

(n) 1. end, butt or tail or fag (end), stump, remainder, remnant, rind, crust: You can always freeze the heel of a loaf to use at some later date for breadcrumbs. 2. cad, scoundrel, swine, rogue, scamp, philanderer, Old-fashioned worm, knave, Chiefly Brit blackguard, Colloq Brit rotter, Old-fashioned bounder, Slang bastard, Brit sod: He's an absolute heel he got her pregnant and then left her. 3. down at heel. US also down at the heels; poor, destitute, impoverished, down and out, on (one's) uppers, in straitened circumstances; shabby, seedy, dowdy, run-down, slovenly, Brit out at elbows, ES out at the elbows, Colloq broke, strapped: Farrington looked down at heel, so I slipped him a fiver. 4. take to (one's) heels. take flighd, flee, escape, run off or away, show a clean pair of heels, Colloq split, Brit do a moonlight flit, US take a (run-out) powder, fly the coop, Australian and New Zealand shoot through: When I mentioned payment, she took to her heels. -(v) 5. dog, follow (closely), shadow, chase, pursue: We have daught our puppy to heel. (v) list, lean (over), tilt, tip, incline: The boat heeled as we turned to beat into the wind.