noun. One who heels shoes.

noun. A ward heeler.

noun. A cock that strikes well with his heels.

noun. A quick runner.

noun. [Cf. LG. hakken-kiker (lit. ‘heel-watcher’: see keek) and hakken-treder (lit. ‘heel-treader’: see tread), a lackey (who follows at the heels of his master).] One who follows at the heels of another; an unscrupulous or disreputable follower or hanger-on of a professional politician or “boss,” or of a party.

noun. A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.

noun. A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.

noun. A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.

noun. A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.

"That was your 'heeler' -- the man you had here when I came."

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