Etymology

heeler

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Today it means: A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs. Full definition →

English heel ← Middle English hele
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The story

  1. Middle Englishhele
  2. Englishheel
  3. English todayheeler

From heel + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.