Obs. nonce-wd. [An alteration of legerdemain by the substitution of heel for the last syllable.] ‘Light-heeled’ pranks.
1605. Chapman, All Fools, Plays, 1873, I. 151. If your wiues play legerdeheele, though you bee a hundred miles off, yet you shall be sure instantly to find it in your forheads.
