heelball

[heel-bawl]

heel·ball

[heel-bawl]
noun
a substance composed of lampblack and wax used for making rubbings or for polishing shoes.

Origin:
1790–1800; heel1 + ball1, orig. the ball or undersurface of the heel
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Heelball is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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heelball (ˈhiːlˌbɔːl)
 
n
a.  a black waxy substance used by shoemakers to blacken the edges of heels and soles
 b.  a similar substance used to take rubbings, esp brass rubbings

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