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heeler † 
1 n. Politics, Slang a subservient party worker who comes to heel readily when ordered.
- 1890 When Orange toughs meet / For a row on the street, / Stirred up by political heelers.
- 1943 (1959) "Judges," she said, "are all political heelers or they would not be judges."
2 n. West See quote.
- 1963 For each such crew was a "heeler," a mounted cowboy who would go into the heat and dust and noise of the herd to rope out the calves one at a time by the heels and drag the bawling and protesting infants up to the fire. . . .
- 1890 When Orange toughs meet / For a row on the street, / Stirred up by political heelers.