Heelys
plural noun
a brand of training shoes with wheels fitted in the heel to allow them to be used like in-line skates
heeling
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a word derived from
Heelys.
Example Sentences
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By now the Oceanos was taking in more and more water and heeling markedly to its starboard side.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2022
As hurricane winds were heeling the vessel past its downflooding angle so that the sea poured in through those same rotting ventilators, the captain had no way to determine wind velocity.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2018
“When we were heeling over, after one or two times, I started to relax. I knew that we weren’t going to crash or sink.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
It both made sense and made no sense at all, and I tried to imagine those dads, composing their notes and then calmly unbuttoning their shirts and heeling away their shoes.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
She could have only four or five inches of freeboard left on the sides and, at the least heeling, her deck would go under from the weight of the water inside the boat.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
