Heeler
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Heeler is a noun meaning A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
Meaning
A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
More Meanings
- A quick runner.
- A dog that readily comes to heel.
- (Australia) A dog used for cattle droving.
- (US, slang, politics, dated) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
- The rodeo performer who ropes the steer by its hind feet after the header has turned it.
- (US) A student journalist at Yale University.
Example Sentences
The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.
If your dog is a good heeler, you'll find some competition in the obedience ring.
That a crowd of Sydney stealers, Jockeys, pugilists and spielers Brought some horses, real heelers, Came and put us through.
[A] blue roan, a kind of dog that Jennifer had never seen before. She asked Tim what it was, and he said it was a "heeler", but when she pressed him to say if that was a breed or not, he could not tell her. It was a heeler because it went for the heels of the cattle and not their heads, apparently.
Word Forms
- heelers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pol, backheeler, backheel, cockfight, back-heel, chipper.
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