heeltap

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Noun

heeltap (plural heeltaps)

1. A piece or wedge that raises the heel of a shoe.
2. (dated) A small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass.
   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Harcourt Brace Jovanivich, page 65:

     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.

   • Bumpers around and no heeltaps.

   • 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.

Verb

heeltap (heeltaps, present participle heeltapping; past and past participle heeltapped)

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

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