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heelsful

heelsful is the plural of heelful.

Meaning of heelful

Noun

heelful (plural heelfuls or heelsful)

  1. As much as will cover a heel or a heel will displace.
    • It took several dozen "heelsful," winding it round the gathering ball on the leg, as one would wind a ball of string.1869, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Questions about heelsful

What is heelsful the plural of?
Heelsful is the plural of heelful.

Words near heelsful in the dictionary

  1. heels
  2. heels out
  3. heels over
  4. heels over head
  5. heels up
  6. heelsful
  7. heelside
  8. heelsides
  9. heelsplitter
  10. heelsplitters
  11. heelstick

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heelsful (page history and authors); heelful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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