heeltap

plural heeltaps

1. A piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe.
2. datedA small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass.

   "He's a good fellow, anyway, if he is a teetotaler!" "Drink his health!" "Give him a rouser, and no heeltaps!"

   1894, Mark Twain, “Chapter 11”, in Pudd'nhead Wilson

   2 more examples

   A heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it! So fill me a bumper, a bumper of Claret! Let the bottle pass freely, don't shirk it nor spare it, For a heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it.

   1815, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall

   We had the heeltaps of bottles as well, so that we often drank too much—a good thing, for one seemed to work faster when partially drunk.

   1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC

present singular third person heeltaps · participle present heeltapping · participle past heeltapped · past heeltapped

1. transitiveTo add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.).