heel up
Example Sentences
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“It’s just a little, half-circle thing that lifts your heel up just a bit.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2022
"I picked the heel up and I threw it," she said.
From Fox News ● Mar. 27, 2019
A boy, perhaps in his late teens, is sitting on an upturned crate in front of it, with a shoe, heel up, in his lap.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
As the cord stretches, it stores energy which, a moment later, is released to tug the heel up, helping that foot push off the ground.
From Economist ● Dec. 16, 2015
This is a ruse for deceiving your opponent as to distance, and is achieved by bringing the left heel up to the right, in the course of the play, without abandoning the normal crouching position.
From Broad-Sword and Single-Stick With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-Defence by Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Baron Headley
