heelplate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of heelplate
Example Sentences
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As quick, the heelplate strikes the alert gunner's shoulder, and, as if in response to the shock, the short unechoed report jars the silence of the woods.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
Few men can use the rifle as the Canadian bush rancher can, and there was a flash from the muzzle as the heelplate touched his shoulder.
From Alton of Somasco by Harold Bindloss
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