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noun
Boot  n.  
1.
Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief. "He gaf the sike man his boote." "Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound." "Next her Son, our soul's best boot."
2.
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged. "I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one."
3.
Profit; gain; advantage; use. (Obs.) "Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot."
To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered. "Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot." "A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot."


Boot  n.  
1.
A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
2.
An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland. "So he was put to the torture, which in Scotland they call the boots; for they put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between them and the leg."
3.
A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach. (Obs.)
4.
A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
5.
An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
6.
(Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. (Obs.)
Boot closer, one who, or that which, sews the uppers of boots.
Boot crimp, a frame or device used by bootmakers for drawing and shaping the body of a boot.
Boot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots.
Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill.
Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.


Boot  n.  Booty; spoil. (Obs. or R.)


verb
Boot  v. t.  (past & past part. booted; pres. part. booting)  
1.
To profit; to advantage; to avail; generally followed by it; as, what boots it? "What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them?" "What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know." "What boots to us your victories?"
2.
To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. (Obs.) "And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg."


Boot  v. t.  (past & past part. booted; pres. part. booting)  
1.
To put boots on, esp. for riding. "Coated and booted for it."
2.
To punish by kicking with a booted foot. (U. S.)


Boot  v. i.  To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.





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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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