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Heeler vs Heeled - What's the difference?

heeler | heeled |

As a noun heeler

is a gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.

As a verb heeled is

(heel).

As an adjective heeled is

having a heel (often specified, as in high-heeled etc).

heeler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
  • A quick runner.
  • * 1891 , Banjo Paterson,
  • *:That a crowd of Sydney stealers,
  • *:Jockeys, pugilists and spielers
  • *:Brought some horses, real heelers ,
  • *:Came and put us through.
  • (US, slang, politics, dated) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
  • * The Century
    • The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding.

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns

    heeled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (heel)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a heel (often specified, as in high-heeled etc.).
  • (archaic) Prepared, especially armed with a weapon.
  • * 1903 , , "The Adventure of the Dancing Men," Norton (2005 edition), p. 896:
    • I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away.

    Related terms

    * well-heeled