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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But as time stretched on, Moss noticed that the ship was heeling - no longer coming back to a level position when it was being thrown about in the storm.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2022
“Princess Panics-a-Lot” is the teasing moniker that Stuart would gently bestow upon Pat whenever she would get anxious that, beating to windward, we were heeling too much and might tip over.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 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
Another argument was that in an emergency the lifeboats would not have time to be loaded and launched, especially if the ship was heeling over.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2012
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
