heelful
nounEtymology
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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.
- Away the boy ran, never minding a stubbed toe or a heelful of thistles that waylaid his course, and, setting the broken fence-cap against a rail, came panting back.
- But people who dig in their heels frequently wind up digging their own graves behind them, heelful by heelful, as, in this hypothetical example, Johnson & Johnson climbs higher and higher.
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Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA