(n.) A cock that strikes well with his heels or spurs.
(n.) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disorder was most common in Australian cattledogs (blue heelers; 8 cases), Old English sheepdogs (3 cases) and Maltese terriers (3 cases).
(2) Neuronal ceroidosis was observed in an 18-month-old male Blue Heeler dog which was euthanized after showing a progressive gait and behavior abnormality, depression, paresthesia, and vision deterioration.
(3) Then there is the apparent nepotism, the dozens if not hundreds of mundane emails in which petitioners for this or that plum Washington job or high-profile academic appointment politely appeal to Podesta – the ward-heeler of the meritocratic elite – for a solicitous word whispered in the ear of a powerful crony.
(4) Stop being the Liberal’s lap dog and bring back the old Nationals attack dog, where’s the blue heeler, Barnaby?” Lambie said.
(5) A young female Queensland Blue Heeler with signs of severe respiratory distress was diagnosed as having Oslerus osleri.
Keeler
Definition:
(n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.
(n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(2) Keeler was to constantly relive her ever-changing four months in 1962 with Profumo.
(3) The Sunday Mirror reprinted Profumo's 'Darling' letter, while the News of the World famously photographed Keeler sitting naked astride a fashionably modern chair, an image that would come to epitomise the Swinging Sixties.
(4) The chances of Keeler being installed in Downing Street were infinitesimal.
(5) The Keeler NCT nearly fulfills the needed criteria for the first group with pressure under 23 mm Hg except for a high standard deviation.
(6) Using the Konan-Keeler specular microscope, panoramic specular microscopy covering almost one quadrant of the anterior capsule was performed.
(7) We conducted comparative measurements with 100 healthy probands and patients suffering of glaucoma with both a Goldmann Applanation Tonometer (GAT) and the new Keeler Non Contact Tonometer (NCT).
(8) The Keeler Pulsair is a noncontact tonometer which can be used by those without specialist ophthalmic training.
(9) Intraocular pressure was evaluated in 414 eyes using Keeler Pulsair tonometry in comparison with values obtained by Goldmann tonometry.
(10) Increases in lens opacity measured by the Lens Opacity Meter 701, the Keeler Projectoscopy and clinical grading.
(11) Although MI5 had known about Profumo's dalliance with Keeler for many months, the first politician to learn about it was John Lewis, the former Labour MP for Bolton, who mistakenly thought Stephen Ward had seduced his wife.
(12) The Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Pulsair: Keeler UK) has been shown to be a versatile instrument particularly suitable for screening for raised intraocular pressure.
(13) The results shows that self-tonometry with the Pulsair-Keeler tonometer can be used in monitoring glaucomatous patients at home.
(14) The recently-introduced Pulsair non-contact tonometer (Keeler Instruments, Inc, Broomall, PA) was evaluated against the Goldmann applanation tonometer in cannulated post mortem human eyes, and in living subjects at three clinical centers.
(15) One of these is the Keeler Pulsair non-contact tonometer which uses pressurized air in measurement.
(16) And Keeler, a doe-eyed beauty just 21 when the scandal broke, was the perfect representative of a generation already associated with greater frankness, self-indulgence and sexual curiosity.
(17) "If Richard had appointed Christine Keeler, I might have intervened," Cook said later, "but Ian was the ideal choice."
(18) We used a camera and flash electrically coupled to an American Optical Non-Contact II tonometer (Cambridge Instruments Inc, Cambridge, Mass) or a Keeler Pulsair tonometer (Keeler Instruments Inc, Broomall, Pa) to photograph the corneal profile during tonometry.
(19) Andy had been passed a copy of a compromising letter from Profumo to Keeler by the Tory MP Henry Kirby.
(20) Using a contactless tonometer of Keeler Co. the authors assessed the intraocular pressure in enucleated eyeballs and compared the values with the intraocular pressure assessed in the eyeballs by means of a water manometer.