Heered vs Heeled - What's the difference?
heered | heeled |
(dialectal) heard; (hear)
* {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Samuel Woodworth Cozzens, title=The Young Trail Hunters, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Putty soon I heered somebody down in the woods a-callin'. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Zane Grey, title=The Light of Western Stars, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Old as I am, Miss Majesty, an' used as I am to cowboy excentrikities, I nearly dropped daid when I heered that little hobble-footed, burned-up Montana cow-puncher say there wasn't any game too swell for him, an' gol-lof was just his speed. }}
(heel)
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:
As verbs the difference between heered and heeled
is that heered is (dialectal) heard; (hear) while heeled is (heel).As an adjective heeled is
having a heel (often specified, as in high-heeled etc).heered
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(en adjective)- I was heeled also, and I held up my gun to scare him off and let me get away.