heeltap

heel +‎ tap

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.
   • 1815, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall:

     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.

   • 1894, Mark Twain, “Chapter 11”, in Pudd'nhead Wilson:

     "He's a good fellow, anyway, if he is a teetotaler!" "Drink his health!" "Give him a rouser, and no heeltaps!"

   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

     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.

heeltap (third-person singular simple present heeltaps, present participle heeltapping, simple past and past participle heeltapped)

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

• leapeth, pealeth