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Boot

noun

1.

Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg.

2.

British term for the luggage compartment in a car.

3.

The swift release of a store of affective force. Synonyms: bang, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill. "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"

4.

Protective casing for something that resembles a leg.

5.

An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg. Synonyms: iron boot, iron heel, the boot.

6.

A form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed.

7.

The act of delivering a blow with the foot. Synonyms: kick, kicking. "The team's kicking was excellent"

verb

(past & past part. booted; pres. part. booting)

1.

Kick; give a boot to.

2.

Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes. Synonyms: bring up, reboot.

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"Boot" Quotes from Famous Books

... great pot lids like the shields of barbarous warriors which she had seen in a story book. Under the kitchen table there was a row of boots all wrinkled by usage, and each wearing a human and almost intelligent aspect—a well-wrinkled boot has often an appearance of mad humanity which can chain and almost hypnotize the observer. As she lifted the boots out of her way she named each by its face. There was Grubtoes, Sloucher, Thump-thump, Hoppit, Twitter, Hide-away, ...

— Mary, Mary • James Stephens

... In fact, the whole neighbourhood was thoroughly well scoured; but the results were nil. In due course of time the tarnishing and the disappearance of the metal reduced my scepticism to a certainty: the "gold dots" were the trace of some pilgrim or soldier's copper-nailed boot. It was the first time that this ludicrous mistake arose, but not the last—our native friends were ever ...

— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton

... While still on the last, they are dipped into a tank of varnish and vulcanized—a very simple matter now that Goodyear has shown us how, for they are merely left in large, thoroughly heated ovens for eight or ten hours. The rubber shoe or boot is now elastic, strong, waterproof, ready for any temperature, and so firmly cemented together with rubber cement that it is practically all ...

— Makers of Many Things • Eva March Tappan

... planet may be drawn off into space by the attraction of some wandering world that has not yet come within observation. But one thing we know: No power on or of the earth can possibly derange its relation to the other celestial bodies. That would be, as you say here, 'lifting one's self by one's own boot-straps.' I do not doubt the accuracy of your clocks and scientific instruments. Those of my own country are in harmony with yours. But to say that the cause of all this is a man is preposterous. If the mysterious Pax makes the heavens fall, they will tumble ...

— The Man Who Rocked the Earth • Arthur Train

... excusing himself, and fumbled with his boot; and by the time that he held it out to her, she was in the thick of the conflict. She knew well enough what it meant—that there was no peril in all England like that to which this letter called her friend, there, waiting for him in Fotheringay where every strange face was suspected, where ...

— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson

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