Heel Plate

One of them must have gnawed on my ankle some, between the greave and the heel-plate, but he couldn't quite get through. ❋ Unknown (1927)

The outlaw twisted round on his heels; but he moved an instant too late, for even as his fingers tightened on the trigger the steel heel-plate descended in the center of his face, and I felt something crunch in under it. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

I heard no explosion -- one rarely does when watching the result intently -- but there was a red flash from the tilting muzzle, and the heel-plate jarred my shoulder. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

The connecting string broke, and one of the boots, iron heel-plate downwards, caught him across the bridge of the nose and cut him to the bone. ❋ Unknown (1899)

And he kneeled down and begun to unscrew the heel-plate, everybody watching; and when he got that big di'mond out of that boot-heel and held it up and let it flash and blaze and squirt sunlight everwhichaway, it just took everybody's breath; and Jubiter he looked so sick and sorry you never see the like of it. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Continuing his search Whitson found the iron heel-plate of a boot, and a small bunch of keys. ❋ Percy Addleshaw (1891)

And he kneeled down and begun to unscrew the heel-plate, everybody watching; and when he got that big di'mond out of that boot-heel and held it up and let it flash and blaze and squirt sunlight everwhichaway, it just took everybody's breath; and ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Unscrew the heel-plate and bore recesses; insert what you desire, after wrapping it tightly in cloth and plugging it in; then replace the heel-plate. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)

Continuing his search "Whitson found the iron heel-plate of a boot, and a small bunch of keys. ❋ Unknown (1899)