The foot of a cow or ox stewed so as to form a jelly; the dish prepared from this.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 203. Also a tender Cow-heel is counted restorative.
1747. Wesley, Prim. Physick (1762), 48. Take a Cowheel from the Tripe House ready drest. Ibid., 93. Make a strong broth of Cowheels.
1799. C. Winter, Lett., in W. Jay, Mem. & Lett. (1843), 60. A cow-heel was his favourite dish.
1868. Daily News, 19 June, 5/4. The feet of sheep and oxen … after being duly cleansed and dressed, are retailed under the designation of ‘trotters’ and ‘cowheels.’
