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21ac Squire Headlong could never bear such dregs (8) H?E?T???

After Googling, it would seem to be HEELTAPS. Squre Headlong apears in a book by Thomas Love Peacock called Headlong Hall, and doesn't seem to like them.

Thanks - you had more luck with Google than I did!

However from the quick look at the book that I had, I have no idea what he is referring too with "Off with your heeltaps" and " Push about the bottle: Mr Escot, it stands with you. No heeltaps. As to skylight, liberty-hall."

I'd never heard of heeltaps, the little bit of drink left in the bottom of the glass. I'll try and remember next time I'm in my local.

I only knew them as boiled potatoes, sliced and fried the next day.

Which I've just discovered, isn't recognised in Chambers as a definition - it might have been a family word.