Usually means: Dog trained to herd cattle.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. heeler: Merriam-Webster
  2. heeler: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. heeler: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Heeler, heeler: Wordnik
  5. heeler: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. heeler: Wiktionary
  7. heeler: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. heeler: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. heeler: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Heeler, heeler: Dictionary.com
  11. Heeler: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Heeler: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. heeler: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Heeler: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. heeler: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. heeler: FreeDictionary.org
  17. heeler: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. heeler: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heeler: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Heeler: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (heeler)

noun:  A gamecock that strikes well with its heels or spurs.
noun:  A quick runner.
noun:  A dog that readily comes to heel.
noun:  (Australia) A dog used for cattle droving.
noun:  (US, slang, politics, dated) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
noun:  The rodeo performer who ropes the steer by its hind feet after the header has turned it.
noun:  (US) A student journalist at Yale University.

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