Meaning of top piece | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The part of the heel on a shoe or boot that comes into contact with the ground.
2. Something worn on the head; a hat, a wig or toupee.
   US, colloquial
3. The head or brain.

Equivalents

Examples

“Then pare the top piece to the size and form⟳ you intend⟳ it to be; but that you should always do before the heel is sewed, for now you are confined to the channel.”

“On the outermost part of the heel, which is in direct⟳ contact⟳ with the ground when the shoe is worn, a top piece is applied.”

“The Mayor took himself up in the lift⟳, quite naked of course, except for his top-piece and neckpiece with his two shopping-bags […].”

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