Usually means: Agile, quick, nimble on feet.
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  1. light-heeled: Merriam-Webster
  2. light-heeled: Wordnik
  3. light-heeled: Wiktionary
  4. Light-heeled: Dictionary.com
  5. Light-heeled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. light-heeled: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Light-heeled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. light-heeled: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Light-heeled: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (light-heeled)

adjective:  (archaic) Nimble or lively in walking or running; swift of foot.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of loose character; not chaste; immoral. Literally, as if by the flying up of the heels, one is apt to fall flat on their back.

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