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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