A form or mold used in shoemaking to shape and support the heel during construction or repair.
Compound from 'heel' and 'tree' (as in shoe tree), a shoemaking term describing the wooden or plastic support form for heel work.
A heeltree works like a sculptor's armature—holding the heel's shape while glue dries—and skilled heelmakers could recognize each other's work by how they used their particular heeltree!
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