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bootn.1

Brit. /buːt/, U.S. /but/
Forms: Old English–Middle English bót, Middle English–1500s bote, Middle English–1600s boote, Middle English– boot. Also Middle English bott, bout(e, Middle English both; northernMiddle English–1500s but(e, Middle English boyte, buyt, 1500s buit.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English bót (feminine), corresponds to Old Frisian bôte , Old Saxon bôta (Middle Dutch and Dutch boete , Low German bote ), Old High German buoȥa (Middle High German buoȥe , modern German busze ), Old Norse bót (Swedish bot , Danish bod ), Gothic bôta ‘boot, advantage, good’ < Germanic *bôtâ- (Aryan type *bhādā- ), probably a derivative of root bat- (Aryan *bhad- ) ‘good, useful’: see better adj., n.1, and adv. Hence beet v., to make good or better.
I. Good, advantage, profit, use.
1.
a. Good: in phrase to boot: ‘to the good’, to advantage, into the bargain, in addition; besides, moreover.
ΚΠ
OE Daniel 200 Cnihtas cynegode cuð gedydon, þæt hie him þæt gold to gode noldon habban ne healdan, ac þone hean cyning, gasta hyrde, ðe him gife sealde. Oft hie to bote balde gecwædon þæt hie þæs wiges wihte ne rohton.
1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1825) 163 (Mätz) A hundreth knyghtes mo..and four hundreth to bote, squieres of gode aray.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman xiv. 268 Bi assent of sondry partyes and syluer to bote.
1543 J. Willoughby in J. Strype Cranmer (1694) App. 66 Mr. Gardiner to sign for himself, and Serles to boot.
1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 171 To boot that he had received many distastes from the French.
1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 9 To boot with the Councel of the States General, the United Provinces have three Councels apart.
1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 42 To boot that it was commonly whispered about, etc.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 13 Feb. (1970) I. 54 For two books that I had and 6s. 6d to boot, I had my great book of songs.
a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1681) I. vi. 74 He shall have all things into boot.
a1711 T. Ken Damonet & Thyrsil in Wks. (1721) IV. 505 Would you give yours, and your whole Flock to boot.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 249 One who held all Gaul and all Britain, with seemingly Germany..to boot.
b. Scottish. to the boot, into the boot (buit).
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1639 S. Rutherford Let. 1 Oct. in Joshua Redivivus (1664) 478 Some who would exchange afflictions & give you to the boot.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xviii. 271 Alice, who..was, to the boot of all that, the best dancer of a strathspey in the whole strath. View more context for this quotation
†2. That which is ‘thrown in’, or given in addition, to make up a deficiency of value; a premium, compensation, odds. Obsolete exc. U.S. and Scottish dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > compensation > that which is given
wagec1400
boot1483
returna1542
redemption1625
1483 Cath. Angl. 49 Bute [v.r. Buyt], auctorium, augmentum.
?1593 G. Fletcher Licia To Rdr. sig. B Were all the world offered to make a change, yet the boote were too small.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Bote (Jam.) The aine partie that gettes the better, giues ane bote, or compensation to the vther.
1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. F If I were so mad to scorse, what boote wouldst thou giue mee?
a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange (1657) iv. iv Doct. Too many a man..will change with thee And give good Boot.
1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes iv. 313 Now I am convinced that my Religion is better than yours since you give me so much Boot.
1811 A. Graydon Mem. (1846) 30 He picked up six or eight of my marbles, and throwing me down three or four times the number of his own, the amount of boot being apparently wholly unworthy of calculation, he decamped in a twinkling.
1831 A. Royall Southern Tour II. 183 I asked no boot in the world.
1846–52 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers xi. 115 I'll be darned if I wouldn't offer to swop for a small matter o' boot.
1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Broomsedge Cove vi. 105 The horse-trade was complete, the exchange made, the boot paid.
†3. Advantage; profit; avail, use. Chiefly in interrog. or negative phrases or their equivalent, as it is no boot: it avails not, it is no use. to make boot of, to make profit of, gain by; to gain.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > [noun]
mainOE
mightOE
strengthOE
efficace?c1225
bootingc1300
effectc1390
powera1393
boota1400
efficacity1430
operationc1450
valure1483
feck1495
efficacy1527
effectualness1545
effectuousnessa1576
validity1593
effectiveness1607
workingness1611
efficaciousnessa1628
operativeness1627
efficiency1633
effectualitya1641
energy1668
availablenessa1676
availment1699
potentialness1727
affectingnessa1774
effectivity1838
efficience1865
well working1879
the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)] > take advantage of
to take (the) advantagea1393
prosecute1594
to make boot of1606
to lay hold (up)on, ofa1715
to trade upon ——1832
to trade on ——1843
market1906
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 89 (MED) Quat bote is to sette traueil On thyng þat may not auail.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. xvi I bare the of my body, quat bote is to layne?
1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 1082 But cum scho to the Kings presence, Thair is na buit for vs to byde.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 448 Agayne þe wyles of wemen to wer is no bote.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii.xi. sig. Nn4 O spare thy happy daies, and them apply To better boot.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 159 Then lose they all the sheates, but to no boot.
1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 22 a They..lost all that before they had made boot of.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. i. 9 Giue him no breath, but now Make boote of his distraction. View more context for this quotation
1681 R. Knox Hist. Ceylon (1781) 333 We thought it no boot to sit longer..and so took up our bags, and fled.
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 272 To no boot, frustra.
†4. loosely, Well-being, weal. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun]
selthc888
healc950
wealOE
goder-heala1225
prosperity?c1225
wealtha1300
statec1300
healtha1325
welfare1357
theedom1362
wealfulnessc1374
bonchiefa1387
felicity1393
boota1400
wella1400
wealsc1400
well-doingc1440
prosperancea1460
happiness?1473
quartfulness1483
brightnessa1500
goodnessa1500
sonsea1500
thriftiness?1529
prosperation1543
well-being1561
prosperousness1600
fair world1641
thrivingness1818
goldenness1829
palminess1875
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 1008 Paradis hit is a..lond of lif of roo & rest Wiþ blis & bote broiden best.
c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 12 Ihesu! þou brouȝtist man to boote.
II. The making good or mending of anything; the means of doing so; repair; remedy, relief.
†5.
a. The repair of decaying structures, e.g. bridges; also, a contribution levied for keeping these in repair. Only in Old English (in such combinations as burhbót, brycgbót, etc.) except in late writers on legal antiquities.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > reparation
boota1000
reparation?a1425
reformation1449
repair1524
rebuild1826
work1828
renovation1907
do-over1920
remodel1956
a1000 Thorpe Laws I. 380 (Bosw.) Brycgbota aginne man georne.
c1250 Gloss. Law Terms in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 33 Briggebote, refere punz à passer.
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Burgbote.
1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 83 The ‘Bricg~bote’.
†b. The right of a tenant to take timber, etc. for repairs, firing, and other necessary purposes, from off the landlord's estate; common of estovers. In combination, as house-bote, hedge-bote, etc. Cf. firebote n.
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society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right to take or carry wood
housebotelOE
haybote?1170
wainbotec1250
wood-lode1263
ploughbote1398
common of estovers1523
boot1553
hedgebote1565
wood-hag1569
cart-bote1594
affuage1753
1553 Procl. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. i. iii. 30 All other lands, tenements..&c., with reasonable fire-boot, cart-boot, plow-boot, hedge-boot, within the woods of the said manor.
1604 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 437 To deliver to the sayd tenants house boot and high boot.
1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. i. §116. 51 If..a stranger grant all manner of Estouers unto me..by this grant I shall have Housbote, Plowbote, and Haybote.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 322 Boot, necessary Timber or Wood for necessary uses; as Plough-boot, House-boot, Fire-boot.
1765–8 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 25 The Saxon word, bote, is of the same signification with the French Estover.
1844 M. F. Tupper Crock of Gold vii. 56 No allowances of hedgebote, or housebote.
†6. esp. A medicinal cure or remedy. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy
leechcraftc888
leechdoma900
bootOE
helpc1000
pigment?a1200
remedya1382
medicinea1393
application?a1425
sanativec1440
healer?1523
recovery1576
curative1577
mithridate1587
cure1623
presidy1657
therapeutic1842
therapeutical1845
OE Cynewulf Elene 299 Gemid horu speowdon on þæs ondwlitan þe eow eagena leoht, fram blindnesse bote gefremede.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 98 Monie remedies..& misliche boten.
c1305 St. Kath. 304 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 98 Noble relik hit is: sike men to habbe of bote.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 426 Anoon he yaf the sike man his boote.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 45 Bote of [1499 or] helthe, salus.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark v. f. 27 She wente unto another for boote that put her in more assuraunce of healthe.
†7.
a. Help or deliverance from evil or peril; assistance, relief, remedy, rescue. Often in boot of bale; cf. bale n.1 6 concrete. A means or agent of help, relief, or remedy; also, a personal agent, a helper. Obsolete (or archaic).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > that which or one who helps or means of help
redeeOE
helpc893
bootOE
friendOE
lithc1275
helpera1300
a helping handa1300
helpingc1330
bieldc1352
succour?a1366
supplementc1384
easementa1398
succourer1442
aid?1473
assister1535
assistant?1541
adminicle1551
mystery1581
second1590
auxiliatory1599
subsidium1640
suffragan1644
facilitation1648
adminiculary1652
auxiliary1656
auxiliar1670
ally1794
Boy Scout1918
assist1954
facilitator1987
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > types of help > [noun] > help in trouble, danger, or difficulty
bootOE
dischargec1390
relief?1406
redressa1413
relievement1443
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [noun] > that which or one who helps or means of help > a helper
helpend971
recurera1382
undertaker1382
bootc1420
profitera1425
suffrage1445
supplier1456
aidant1477
aider1483
adjutor1531
benefactor1532
assistant?1541
servant1562
aid1569
adjument1576
adjuvant1583
familiar1583
adjoint1603
opitulator1624
adjutator1832
society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > boot
boota1522
boot1580
Scotch boot1604
oiled boota1640
bootikin1727
scarpine1855
OE Andreas (1932) 947 Him sceal bot hraðe weorþan in worulde ond in wuldre lean.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 398 Her ys seo bot hu ðu meaht þine æceras betan.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 408 Our Lorde..bote þerof him sende.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 196 For þat was bake for bayarde · was bote for many hungry.
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 928 God sende euery trewe man boote of his bale.
c1420 Sir Amadace xvii God, that is bote of alle bale, Dame, Cumford the.
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. iv. 8 a The poore not wist where to find bote.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. vi. 106 To venquist folkis is a comfort and bute.
1557 Primer, Praier bef. Sacrament I come as a wretche to thee my Lord..to thee my boote.
1591 R. Greene Maidens Dreame li ‘Virgin’, quoth she, ‘no boot by tears is had’.
1867 G. MacDonald Poems 144 Laid his sword where he had found Boot for every bale.
†b. to do (one) boot: to render help or remedy to; to be of service, advantage, or profit to; to do good to.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)]
helpc1000
goodOE
steadc1175
to do (one) boot?c1225
advancec1330
profitc1330
availc1384
servea1398
vaila1400
vailc1400
prevail1442
advantage?1459
vantagec1460
bootc1540
benefit1549
conduce?1577
to serve (one) in some, no stead1601
bonify1603
answer1756
better1833
to stand to ——1841
to stand (a person or thing) in (good, etc.) stead1887
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 70 Ne halp hit me nocht to don her on bote.
c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 146 And euery gras that groweth vp on roote She shal eek knowe and whom it wol do boote.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 110 Two basketfull of bene chaf doth boote..to grettest treen.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. X.iiiiv As moules that want the earth to do them bote.
a1628 F. Greville Mustapha i. Chorus in Certaine Wks. (1633) 96 Meat, drinke, and drugges alike doe little boot.
c. In apprecatory phrases: as Saint George to boot!, grace to boot! i.e. to one's help.
ΚΠ
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. vi. 31 This, and Saint George to bootes.
1599 George a Greene sig. B4 Saint Andrewe be my boote, But Ile rase thy castle to the verie ground.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 82 Grace to boot: Of this make no conclusion, least you say Your Queene and I are Deuils.
d. In various proverbial phrases: as, when bale is hext boot is next: see bale n.1 7 boot or bield: see bield n. 3 boot of beam: see beam n.2; later boot in beam and booty beam (? i.e. boot i' beam).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > remedy
helpc1000
healinga1225
remedy?c1225
bote of beam1330
recurec1330
recoverera1375
remeida1413
redemption?a1439
botmenta1450
recurementc1450
presidy?a1475
mendsa1525
repair1612
relief1616
booty beam1642
beyond retrieve1658
beyond retrieval1697
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [noun]
betteringeOE
amendmentc1230
bote of beam1330
meliorationa1400
upraisingc1400
reformation?a1425
amelioration?a1450
enrichinga1513
amendsa1547
gooding1567
betterment1594
meliorization1599
endearment1612
raisure1613
betterance1614
ascenta1616
ascension1617
enrichmenta1626
improvement1625
booty beam1642
meliorating1647
bonification1652
uplift1873
work1914
pickupa1916
upgrading1920
tone-up1943
stepping1958
upgradation1979
upgrade1980
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 136 Which should..put boote in beame (as we say) securing her of a good and safe issue of her labour.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 257 What a stay, what boot in beame it is?
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 111 As it had not the latter by it self, so neither had it the former in booty beme, or a power in seed.
†8. A way of mending matters, help out of a difficulty; a better way, a resource, alternative, choice. ther nis no bote: there is no help for it. none other boot: no other resource, no alternative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > necessity [phrase]
none other boota1225
needs must that needs shallc1330
no remedy buta1470
needs must when the Devil drivesc1500
what remedy?1511
there is no help for it1581
(there is) nothing for it but1845
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > available means or a resource
boota1225
chevisancec1330
shift1523
a help at maw1592
resource1665
a1225 St. Marher. 15 Nis ther bote nan bute fleon thenne.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 1992 Ffor If he may this monstre overcome Thanne were he quyt; ther is non other bote.
c1410 Sir Cleges 355 Sir Cleges sey non othyr bote, But his askyng graunte he most.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxiii. 220 Ther is no bote but deth.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 49 I gert the buthman [a1586 bicheman] obey—ther wes no bute ellis.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxcii. 674 There was none other boote for hym but to arme him.
1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery 82 For though I serve untill I sterve, I see none other Boote.
III. The making amends for mischief or wrong done; amends made.
†9. Compensation paid, according to Old English usage, for injury or wrongdoing; reparation, amends; satisfaction made. (Only in Old English, except in late writers on legal antiquities, who usually retain the Old English form bót or Middle English bote.) In many combinations, as man-bote, kin-bote, thief-bote, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > for killing
man-botea1000
bloodwite1872
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for man's life
man-botea1000
bloodwitelOE
manworthlOE
wergilda1214
kinbootc1425
eric1587
were1607
blood-fine1818
blood money1826
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun]
yield601
angildeOE
maegboteOE
allowancea1325
finea1400
boota1450
reparationa1460
contentation1467
disdomage1502
contention1516
regard1568
contentment1603
atonement-money1611
satisfaction1621
satisfaction money1651
content1689
compensation1804
smart money1817
hoot1820
indemnization1836
compo1941
MCA1973
OE Beowulf 281 Bealuwa bisigu bot eft cuman.
a1000 Thorpe Laws I. 12 Ȝif feaxfang geweorþ, L scætta to bote.
a1450 Sc. Acts, 1 Robt. I ix Alsua it is ordainyt þat nane tak meyd of a theyff [or thyft bute].
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem Table 103 The Wergelt, or theiftbote, of ane theife, is threttie kye.
1845 Stephen Laws Eng. in Edinb. Rev. (1884) Apr. 339 ‘If the great toe be struck off, let twenty shillings be paid him as bot.’
1854 G. Nicholls Hist. Eng. Poor Law I. 13 ‘That he [the kinsman] make ‘bot’ for him.’
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 178 Bot or personal compensation was paid to an ealderman, a bishop or an archbishop, by the man who fought, or drew his weapon in their presence.]
†10. Expiation of sin, an offering by way of atonement; sin-offering; repentance by act; penance. Cf. dedbote at deedbote n. Forms. Obsolete (except as the Old English form may be cited by ecclesiastical antiquaries.)
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [noun]
boot971
edbotec1315
amendmentc1325
amendsc1330
assethe1340
enoughbote1340
satisfaction1340
redress1384
menda1400
redemptiona1400
curation?c1400
amends making?a1425
mends-makinga1425
recompensec1425
expiation1482
agreement1526
contentation1535
sythmentc1540
syth1567
atonement-making1587
atonement1611
piation1623
atone1868
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > atonement > [noun]
boot971
satisfaction1340
reconciliationc1390
atonement1526
contentation1535
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun]
boot971
shriftc1030
penitencea1200
penancea1300
penitency1597
society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > for sin
boot971
piaclec1460
purgatory1563–4
piaculum1601
sin-money1611
piaculary1655
sin-rent1899
971 Blickl. Hom. 35 Don we urum Drihtne soþe hreowe & bote.
c1000 Ælfric Leviticus iv. 28 And his gylt undergit, bring ane gat to bote to þam temple.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 15 Gif we nulleð gan to bote..hit is riht þet me us nede.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 69 Þe wile here bot dai laste..Ure bot dai is nu and lasteð þe wile þe god wile.
a1240 Ureisun 133 in Cott. Hom. 197 Þu ne uorsakest nenne mon..Ȝif he is to bote ȝeruh and bit þe uorȝiuenesse.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. iii. 113 The fines arising from these ecclesiastical crimes were paid into the treasury of the bishop under the denomination of ‘bots’.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† bootn.2

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s boote.
Etymology: Apparently an application of boot n.1, influenced by the already-existing booty n.1; perhaps due to the phrase to make boot of , ‘to make profit of’ (compare boot n.1 3), being taken as ‘to make booty of’.
Obsolete.
a. Booty; spoil; plunder.
ΘΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > spoil or plunder
reifOE
fang1016
fengc1175
purchasec1325
predec1330
robberyc1330
robbingsc1330
spoila1340
spoila1382
chevisance1393
waitha1400
fee14..
pilferc1400
pelfa1425
spreathc1425
butinc1450
emprisec1450
gain1473
despoil1474
pelfry?a1475
pilfery1489
spulyie1507
cheat1566
bootinga1572
booty1574
escheat1587
boot1598
exuvial1632
bootyn1635
polling1675
expilation1715
prog1727
swag1794
filch1798
spreaghery1814
stake1819
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades xi. 585 We foraged, as proclaimed foes, a wondrous wealthy boot..our prey was rich and great.
a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 925 Rising betimes for Boot (like Free-booters).
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 119 It was decreed, that..all boot taken in priuate should be deliuered vp to the vse of the generalitie.
b. esp. in to make boot.
ΘΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > sack, raid, or loot [verb (intransitive)]
harryc893
skeckc1330
skicka1400
cry havoc1419
foray1487
raven1570
booty1580
rapine1580
pillage1593
boot-hale1598
to make boota1599
ravage1604
scummer1633
maraud1684
loot1842
raid1848
a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii2 Haruests riches, which he made his boot.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 194 Others [sc. Bees] like souldiers..Make boote vpon the sommers veluet bud: Which pillage they..bring home.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 13 Thou that art his Mate, make boote of this. View more context for this quotation
1641 T. Heywood Reader, here you'l plainly See 5 They make Boote Of every thing we wear from head to foote.
1885 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads II. iii. §61. 57/2 Stopping only long enough to make boot of Hjelmer's gold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

bootn.3

Brit. /buːt/, U.S. /but/
Forms: Middle English–1500s bote, Middle English–1600s boote, 1600s– boot. (Also Middle English–1600s northern bute, Middle English but, 1500s botte, bowtt, 1500s–1600s Scottish buitt.)
Etymology: Middle English bote, < Old French bote (modern French botte), corresponding to Provençal bota, Spanish bota, Portuguese bota, medieval Latin botta, bota, of uncertain origin. Identified by Diez, Littré, etc. with French boute (also, in modern French, botte) butt, cask, leathern vessel; but ‘the phonology of the two words in Old French shows that they are quite distinct’ (P. Meyer). In medieval Latin also butta ‘butt’ and botta ‘boot’ are never confounded, though bota is frequent as a by-form of both, which has probably misled etymologists.
1.
a. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, usually of leather. (Distinguished from a shoe n. by extending above the ankle. In earlier times used only by riders: see quot. from Johnson.)
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun]
bootc1325
c1325 Poem temp. Edw. II 26 Felted botys.
c1325 Poem temp. Edw. II 55 Tho his botes be all totore.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 275 His bootes [v.r. botis, -es] clasped faire and fetisly.
1483 Cath. Angl. 49 A Bute [v.r. Buyt] of ledir or wandis.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 130 Get on thy boots, weel ride al night. View more context for this quotation
1746 Rep. Cond. Sir J. Cope 116 This Morning Lord President call'd upon me in his Boots on his way Northward.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Boot..a covering for the leg, used by horsemen.
1832 S. Austin tr. H. L. H. von Pückler-Muskau Tour German Prince II. iii. 38 A plain farmer, in marsh-boots and waterproof cloak.
1835 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 491 My little kid-boots were sadly stain'd.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §18. 131 It is more difficult to fix the heel of the boot than the toe securely in the ice.
b. Phrases, as †to make one boot serve for either leg (see quot.); the boot is on the other leg: the case is altered, the responsibility is on the other party; the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot; one's heart is in one's boots: see heart n., int., and adv. Phrases 5a; †over shoes, over boots: expressing reckless continuance in a course already begun; boot and saddle [perversion of French boute-selle ‘place saddle’; see boute-selle n.] , the signal to cavalry for mounting; like old boots (slang): vigorously, thoroughgoingly; also to put (or sink) in the boot or to put the boot in (esp. Australian and New Zealand): to kick (in a brutal manner); also figurative; boots and all (Australian and New Zealand colloquial): with no holds barred, wholeheartedly; also attributive.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > be ambiguous [phrase]
to make one boot serve for either leg1533
we'll see about that1791
see1823
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > off one's guard [phrase] > rashly or recklessly
at all adventure (also adventures)1485
in flagrant blood1614
over shoes, over boots1653
neck or nothing1814
as if there were no tomorrow1847
(like a) bull at a (five-barred) gate1957
society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > cavalry signals
mountee1415
tucket1605
boute-selle1628
boot and saddle1697
watering call1798
stable-call1889
stable1908
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > mistake [phrase]
to miss the cushiona1529
to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546
to pray without one's beads1641
to have the wrong end of the stick?1793
to bark up the wrong tree1832
the boot (is) on the wrong leg or foot1834
to have another think coming1896
you have another guess coming1935
to be off the beam1941
blow1943
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > reversal [phrase]
Tottenham is turned French1546
to turn the tables1612
to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)1642
the boot is on the other leg1854
the shoe is on the other foot1933
the wheel has come full circle1944
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy
with (also in) mood and maineOE
vigour13..
with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330
with (one's) forcec1380
like anything1665
hammer and tongs1708
like stour1787
(in) double tides1788
like blazes1818
like winking1827
with a will1827
like winky1830
like all possessed1833
in a big way1840
like (or worse than) sin1840
full swing1843
like a Trojan1846
like one o'clock1847
like sixty1848
like forty1852
like wildfire1857
like old boots1865
like blue murder1867
like steam1905
like stink1929
like one thing1938
like a demon1945
up a storm1953
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (intransitive)] > with the foot > kick > in brutal manner
to put (or sink) in the boot1916
to put the boot in1964
the mind > will > wish or inclination > willingness > [adverb] > heartily or zealously
with (also mid) all one's heartOE
greedilyc1200
affectuously?a1425
jealouslya1425
affectuallyc1425
wilfullyc1430
heartilya1450
zealously?1495
desirously1502
affectedly1582
affectionally1603
affectionatelya1716
boots and all1947
Messianically1976
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. xxxvv That their wordes shold haue two senses, & one bote serue for eyther legge.
1653 R. Sanderson Serm. Newport 23 Over shoos, over boots, I know God will never forgive me, and therefore I will never trouble my self to seek his favour.., this is properly the sin of despair.
1662 H. Foulis Hist. Wicked Plots i. ix. 67 Which so much incensed the Commons, that they (over Boots, over Shooes) fell to draw up another.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Æsop 11 To boot and saddle again they sound.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 51. ⁋1 The Sound was chang'd to Boots and Saddle.
1825 Bangor (Maine) Reg. 8 Dec. This will be putting the boot upon the other leg.
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 97 He's got the boot on the wrong leg.
1854 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gen. Bounce (1855) II. xvi. 47 The young woman as owns that house has got the boot on the other leg.
1856 J. Grant Black Dragoon xii Our trumpets blew ‘Boot-and-saddle’ in the streets.
1861 ‘F. G. Trafford’ City & Suburb 385 That's what I call putting the boot on the other leg with a vengeance.
1863 (title) The boot on the other leg; or, loyalty above party.
1865 M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper xxvii. 282 I'll stick to you like old boots.
1866 F. Moore Women of War 173 ‘Ah,’ replied the jolly rebel, ‘the boot is on the other foot now.’
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xiii. 213 She's as tough as old boots.
1870 (title) The boot on the wrong foot.
1883 Harper's Mag. Sept. 592/2 [He] felt his courage oozing out at the seams of his boots.
1888 Denver Republ. 9 Apr. When in liquor he was quarrelsome and the prediction was commonly made that he would die with his boots on.
1890 Adrian Times 6 Mar. ‘Gov. Luce’, he said, ‘..can beat Barnes out of his boots’.
1899 Pall Mall Mag. Apr. 474 ‘She wouldn't marry you?’ ‘My dear fellow, the boot was on the other leg. I wouldn't marry her.’
1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 42 Plunks Tyball through the gizzard wiv 'is sword, 'Ow I ongcored! ‘Put in the boot!’ I sez. ‘Put in the boot.’
c1926 Transport Workers' Songbook (N.Z.) 107 All of them helping the worker down, by putting in the ‘boot’.
1936 G. B. Shaw Simpleton iii. 29 I should say..that the boot is on the other leg.
1942 V. Palmer in Coast to Coast 26 Wait till he gets his opening, Charlie will, and then sink in the boot.
1947 D. M. Davin For Rest of Lives xix. 96 The next thing he'll do is counter-attack, boots and all.
1949 Economist 10 Sept. 566 [N.Z. correspondent] Longer political experience, a greater tactical sense and a ‘boots-and-all’ ruthlessness.
1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman (1966) xiv. 174 ‘I can think of several things you might do. They would all of them do Martin a world of good, but they don't include calling him out.’ ‘Boot's on the other leg: he called me out.’
1955 Times 13 Aug. 7/2 When the boot was on the other foot and his own Democratic Party was in opposition the People's Party, then in power, deplored their rivals' use of the boycott weapon.
1955 V. Palmer Let Birds Fly 128 This could be no light affair for either of them. ‘It's boots and all... Boots and all for both of us.’
1964 Guardian 2 Mar. 7/6 When he's lying there some cow in the front row puts the boot in.
2014 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 30 June The laws are tilted in favour of the accused and are not designed to protect the victims. In fact, the boot should be on the other leg.
c. to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot: to ‘kick out’, dismiss, ‘sack’. So to get the boot.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge
to put awaya1387
discharge1428
dismiss1477
to put out of wages1542
discard1589
to turn away1602
to put off1608
disemploy1619
to pay off1648
to pay off1651
to turn out1667
to turn off1676
quietus1688
strip1756
trundle1794
unshop1839
shopc1840
to lay off1841
sack1841
drop1845
to give (a person) the shoot1846
bag1848
swap1862
fire1879
to knock off1881
bounce1884
to give (a person) the pushc1886
to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888
bump1899
spear1911
to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911
terminate1920
tramp1941
shitcan1961
pink slip1966
dehire1970
resize1975
to give a person his jotters1990
society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > dismiss or discharge > be dismissed or discharged
to get the bag1804
to get the sack1825
swap1862
to get the boot1888
to take a walk1888
to get the run1889
to get (or have) the swap1890
to get the (big) bird1924
to get one's jotters1944
1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xii. 215 There'll be the money to take over the Moat Farm and give that varmint Janter the boot.
1904 Minister's Gaz. Fashion Dec. 219/2 His vivacious accounts of ‘padding the hoof’, getting the ‘boot’, [etc.].
1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub ii. 62 An habitual slacker..generally got the Order of the Boot at the end of his third term.
1927 R. A. Freeman Certain Dr. Thorndyke i. ii. 22 If you hadn't come I should have got the order of the boot to a certainty.
d. U.S. slang. A recruit at a boot camp (see boot camp n. 1).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > recruit
besognier1584
bisogno1591
bezonian1592
besonio1603
besogne?1615
greenhorn1650
lister1678
recruit1707
rookie1868
recruity1887
recruitee1896
rook1902
boot1915
inductee1941
sprog1941
yardbird1941
skinhead1943
macker1944
red-arse1946
1915 Recruiters' Bull. (U.S. Marine Corps) Apr. 11/1 One of the ‘boots’ transferred to the Recruit Depot recently.
1944 G. P. Bailey Boot; a Marine in the Making Foreword Marine inductees are called ‘Boots’ and it is Marine Corps custom to send them all through a grim process called ‘boot camp’.
1963 Amer. Speech 38 78 It is taught to the ‘boot’ before he leaves boot camp.
e. slang. offensive. A derogatory term for a black person.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]
AfriceOE
MoorOE
EthiopOE
blomana1225
Ethiopiana1325
blue mana1387
Moriana1387
black mana1398
blackamoor1525
black Morian1526
black boy1530
molen1538
Nigro1548
Nigrite1554
Negro1555
neger1568
nigger1577
blackfellow1598
Kaffir1607
black1614
thick-lipsa1616
Hubsheea1627
black African1633
blackface1704
sambo1704
Cuffee1713
Nigritian1738
fellow1753
Cuff1755
blacky1759
mungo1768
Quashie1774
darkie?1775
snowball1785
blue skin1788
Moriscan1794
sooterkin1821
nigc1832
tar-brush1835–40
Jim Crow1838
sooty1838
mokec1847
dinge1848
monkey1849
Siddi1849
dark1853
nigre1853
Negroid1860
kink1865
Sam1867
Rastus1882
schvartze1886
race man1896
possum1900
shine1908
jigaboo1909
smoke1913
golliwog1916
jazzbo1918
boogie1923
jig1924
melanoderm1924
spade1928
jit1931
Zulu1931
eight ball1932
Afro1942
nigra1944
spook1945
munt1948
Tom1956
boot1957
soul brother1957
nig-nog1959
member1962
pork chop1963
splib1964
blood1965
non-voter1966
moolinyan1967
Oreo1968
boogaloo1972
pongo1972
moolie1988
1957 C. MacInnes City of Spades i. iii. 17 In England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger.
1962 H. Simmons Man walking on Eggshells ii. xxii. 162 A lot of paddy studs still didn't know that boots were human.
f. An act of kicking (a person, ball, etc.); a kick. Cf. boot v.3 4a. colloquial.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > with the foot > kicking > a kick
spurna1300
kick1530
yark1581
wince1612
pote1781
funk1808
spang1863
leather1883
root1907
boot1942
hoof1985
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §689/2 Kick, boot. Spec. balloon, a lofty kick.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 14 May ii. 3/1 Joe bounced along the sidelines moaning about his team's mistakes until he finally found some one to agree with him. Then all was calm until the next boot.
1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 98 That one impromptu boot so impossibly high, so perfectly parabolic, the ball soaring miles.
†2. A piece of armour for the legs, a greave.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > leg armour > greave
hosesc1275
jamberc1330
jambeauc1380
boot1388
shinbawde?a1400
greavec1400
leg piece1653
jamb1834
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Sam. xvii. 6 He hadde bootis of bras in the hipis [1382 stelyn legharneis].
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 65/4 He had botes of brasse in his cartes.
1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Sam. xvii. 6 He had brassen bootes on his thighes [1611 He had greaues of brasse vpon his legs].
3. An instrument of torture formerly used in Scotland to extort confessions from prisoners.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > boot
boota1522
boot1580
Scotch boot1604
oiled boota1640
bootikin1727
scarpine1855
1580–1 Randolph in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 324 Being neither offered the boots, nor other kind of torment.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 262 Ane Minister..quha wes extramelie pynnit in the beittis lang of befoir.
1618 N. Field Amends for Ladies i. i. sig. B The wrack, Strapado, or the boiling boote.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 20 Scho is..put in the bootis and cruellie torturit, yit confessis nothing.
c1706 J. Vanbrugh Mistake i. i Shall I draw him on a Scotch pair of boots, Master, and make him tell all?
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 237 They put a pair of iron boots close on the leg, and drive wedges between these and the leg.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 132 The public executioner, a tall, grim and hideous man, having an oaken table before him, on which lay thumb-screws, and an iron case, called the Scottish boot.
1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. iv. 45 The bones of their legs were shattered in the boots.
4. Part of a coach.
†a. The fixed external step of a coach (cf. French botte 5 in Littré).
b. An uncovered space on or by the steps on each side, where attendants sat, facing sideways; later, a low outside compartment before or behind the body of the vehicle. Obsolete.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > hinder part for seating or luggage
boot1608
rumble-tumble1777
boodge1794
budget1794
budget-bar1794
trunk-boot1795
rumble1798
rumbler1805
trunk-board1819
toe-piece1879
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. D2 Shee sits in the boote and rides on.
1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. B3v In the bootes of which Coach, Lechery and Sloth sit like the waiting-maide.
1618 J. Taylor in Knight Once upon Time I. 152 Drawn sideways, as they are when they sit in the boot of the coach.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §202 If in a Coach, one side of the Boot be down, and the other up.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xv. 71 His [sc. the King's] two brothers and the Infanta..were all in one coach, but the Infanta sat in the boat.
1669 London Gaz. No. 421/2 5 or 6 persons..opening the boot of his Coach discharged on him their Pistoll.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 196 He received his Son into the Coach, and found a slight Errand to leave Buckingham behind; as he was putting his Foot in the Boot.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 10 My Father, opening the Boot, step't out, and I followed.
1716 T. Ward England's Reformation 400 Rogues to sally out And charge the Coach at either Boot.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 37 A chaplain, stuffed into a sort of lateral recess, formed by a projection at the door of the vehicle, and called, from its appearance, the boot.
c. The receptacle for luggage or parcels under the seats of the guard and coachman. (This appears to have been the fore and hind boot of sense 4b, covered in as a box, ? about the middle of the 18th cent.) Now the ordinary name in the U.K. for the luggage compartment usually at the rear of a motor vehicle. Also attributive.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > rear part > rear part arranged to carry luggage
bulk1546
boot1781
well1783
car boot1908
rumble1908
car trunk1912
trunk1931
dicky1965
1781 Westm. Mag. 9 13 I begged protection of the coachman, who advised me to get into the boot of the coach.
1807 H. Corp Antidote Miseries Human Life 27 ‘Mind that sword-case in the boot’, cries the captain.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby iv. 23 From the door of the hind boot of all the red coaches.
1868 W. E. Waters Life among Mormons 41 The mail is carried in the boots of stage-coaches.
1886 Leslie's Pop. Monthly 21 66/1 The great boot was securely strapped down over the baggage.
1933 Boy's Mag. 47 35/1 The spare wheel is carried in an enclosed luggage boot at the rear.
1955 Times 29 June 12/6 The tailboard formed by the lowered boot-door.
d. U.S. (See quots.)
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > board or leather apron at front
apron1790
dashing-leather1794
knee-boot1794
splashing-board1809
splash-board1826
boot1828
dashboard1847
apron-cloth1857
dasher1858
dash1868
splasher1887
storm apron1895
1828–32 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Boot. 3... An apron or leathern cover for a gig or chair, to defend persons from rain and mud. This..application is local and improper.
1911 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Warren's Wards i. 9 The ‘boot’ was a rubber curtain buttoned across the front of the buggy, extending from the dashboard to just below the level of the driver's eyes.
5. A protective covering for the foot and part of the leg of a horse.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > boot
boot1812
ankle boot1835
hipposandal1847
footguard1875
toe-boot1901
1812 Purden Specif. Patent 3542 (title) An improved Horse boot.
1884 Longman's Mag. Apr. 610 The bright chest~nut, on which the trainer himself has mounted—after seeing him carefully fitted with ‘boots’, lest he should cut or overreach.
6. In various technical uses:
†a. A (leather) case for a fiddle.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > bowable instrument > [noun] > violin > case for
boot1594
fiddle-case1647
violin-case1685
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie v. iii. sig. H2 A bots on the shoomaker that made this boote for my fiddle, tis too straight.
b. Organ-building (see quot.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > parts supporting pipes
foot1828
rack board1840
pipe holder1847
rack1853
pipe rack1855
rack pillar1876
boot1880
rack pin1881
1880 C. A. Edwards Organs ii. xviii. 139 The boot..encloses and supports the block... The boot also conveys the wind to the speaking part or reed.
c. Metallurgy (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron > part of
boot1881
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 110 Boot, a leather or tin joint connecting the blast-main with the tuyère or nozzle in a bloomary.
d. In bottling liquor: A leathern case in which to put a filled bottle while corking it (cf. bottle boot n. at bottle n.3 Compounds 8).
e. The feathered legs of some varieties of pigeons and poultry.
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1855 Poultry Chron. 3 348/2 The boots, or as Shanghai fanciers would style it, the vulture hock, must be white.
1875 Contemp. Rev. 26 949 Instances..in which the feet of pigeons or fowls are abnormally feathered, or, as it is termed, furnished with ‘boots’.
f. Ornithology. An entire tarsal envelope characteristic of the legs of some birds.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > legs > bones of
metatarsus1682
talus1684
tibia1826
tarsus1828
suffrago1842
tarso-metatarsal1851
tarso-metatarsus1854
boot1864
tibiotarsus1883
metatarse1894
1864 E. Coues in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 82 The very long tarsi present the remarkable feature of having their anterior and lateral aspects covered with one smooth unbroken podotheca or ‘boot’.
g. Agriculture. The uppermost leaf-sheath, just below the brush or head, of a broom-corn plant; also the lowest leaf-bearing internode on a stalk of wheat. U.S.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl.
h. Short for Denver boot n. at Denver n. U.S.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > clamp for illegally parked vehicle
Denver boot1967
boot1968
wheel clamp1980
1968 Amer. City Apr. 146/1 The boot is a device that slips over the rim of a car's wheel so that it cannot be moved away.
1977 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 Mar. 80/3 One Washington resident recently received her second boot and had to pay $400 for 26 tickets accumulated over seven months.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Chiefly in attributive and objective relations.
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boot-binder n.
boot-cleaning n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun]
boot-cleaning1838
boot-blacking1866
shine1871
shoe-blacking1902
shoe-shine1911
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xviii. 301 Went on with his boot-cleaning.
boot-edge n.
boot-finisher n.
boot-garter n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > other
speckc1440
under-leather1569
rand1598
tongue1598
ruffle1600
underlay1612
tap1688
jump1712
bottom1768
boot-garter1824
yarking1825
range1840
counter1841
insole1851
sock1851
galosh1853
heel plate1862
lift1862
foxing1865
spring1885
saddle1930
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. vi. 118 A handsome and flourishing pair of boot-garters.
boot-heel n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > types of
heelc1400
cork1609
Polonia heel1613
high heel1645
French heel1651
spur box1862
rubber heel1867
boot-heel1870
Louis Quinze1875
Louis heel1906
Cuban heel1908
brogue heel1927
spike heel1929
stiletto heel1931
wedge-heel1939
stiletto1953
wedge1959
stacked heel1960
stilt heel1973
1870 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old (1875) 99 The rims of his boot-heels.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vii. 117 You're a work-woman, darling, to your boot-heels.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Lost Girl vii. 139 Striking a match on his boot-heel.
boot-holder n.
boot-maker n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > boot-making > one who
boot-maker1630
1630 Diary in F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (1846) (Gloss.) at Boots To a bootmaker for one pair of boots, white and red, 14s.
boot-making n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > boot-making
boot-making1871
1871 E. C. G. Murray Member for Paris I. 279 They would have taken to boot-making.
boot-nail n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > nail for fastening parts of
shoe-nailc725
sparablea1627
sparrow-bill1629
boot-naila1661
peg1714
shoe pin1714
shoe peg1854
shoe-bill1861
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 42 A soldier leaves his boot-nail in my hand.
boot-pattern n.
boot-seam n.
boot-sole n.
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1877 H. James in Lippincott Mag. Nov. 608 I might claim that you don't really know the charms of London until on one of the dog-days you have imprinted your boot-sole in the slumbering dust of Belgravia.
boot-sponge n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > implement for
shoe cloutc1425
shoe-rag1594
shoe-brush1740
blacking brush1850
boot-sponge1863
1863 C. Dickens Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings i, in All Year Round (Extra Christmas No.) 3 Dec. 6/1 My boot-sponge was in my hand.
boot-spur n.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs > spur
spurc725
Ripon1631
heel spur1687
prick spur1688
Brummagem1823
goad spur1838
boot-spur1847
tormentor1875
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxii. 190 Clinking his boot-spurs, swaggering prodigiously.
boot-upper n. (see upper n.1 1).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > upper > types of
top1629
boot-top1771
sock1851
boot-uppera1877
a1877Boot uppers [see boot-crimp n. at Compounds 2].
1879 Birmingham Weekly Post 21 June 5/3 Charged with..stealing a quantity of boot-uppers.
1906 Times 13 Dec. 4/2 The [stolen] boot uppers were found at the shop.
C2. Special combinations. Also boot-top n., boot-topping n.
boot-black n. a person who blacks boots, a shoe-black (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > one who
black-shoe boy1725
Japanner1725
shoe-cleaner1725
shoe-blacker1735
shoe-boy1735
shoeblack1772
boot-black1817
boot-boy1860
shoe-shiner1910
shiner1912
1817 in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1866) VIII. 246 They had a boot-black and barber.
1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 25 Feb. That negro boot-black on the street corner.
1883 Harper's Mag. July 817/1 The San Francisco boot-blacks seem quite a model to their class.
boot-blacking n. (a) the polishing of boots and shoes; also attributive; (b) blacking for polishing boots and shoes.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun]
boot-cleaning1838
boot-blacking1866
shine1871
shoe-blacking1902
shoe-shine1911
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > preparation for
blacking1598
blacking ball1740
boot-blacking1866
Shinola1902
nugget1903
1866 J. C. Gregg Life in Army 139 Here are..boot-blacking establishments.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iv. 45 Ted had smears of boot-blacking on his face and hands.
boot-boy n. (a) a boy employed to clean boots and shoes; (b) a violent or rowdy youth of a type characterized by assembling in gangs in search of trouble, wearing short-cropped hair and heavy boots; = bovver boy n. at bovver n. Compounds
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > one who
black-shoe boy1725
Japanner1725
shoe-cleaner1725
shoe-blacker1735
shoe-boy1735
shoeblack1772
boot-black1817
boot-boy1860
shoe-shiner1910
shiner1912
society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans
whitecap1607
shrove-prentice1638
Mohock?1711
sweater1712
highbinder1806
hoodlum1871
hooligan1898
hood1930
skolly1934
tear-away1938
gunsel1942
Teddy boy1954
hell's angel1956
angel1965
bikie1967
skinhead1969
bovver boy1970
boot-boy1977
casual1980
1860 A. Trollope Tales of all Countries 58 ‘He, he, he,’ laughed the boot boy as he turned them up for me to look at.
1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son ix. 84 I don't share out,—with the boot-boy.
1977 Chainsaw Sept. 7/2 And now we're getting fights down the King's Road at weekends between punks, teds and boot boys.
1984 Daily Tel. 25 Feb. 36/4 Mr John Cartwright, the SDP whip whose party has taken the brunt of the abuse said: ‘We are not going to be silenced by this sort of boot-boy tactics more suited to football hooligans than MPs.’
† boot-catch n. Obsolete a servant at an inn who pulled off the guests' boots.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > one who pulled guests' boots off
boot-catcher1745
boot-catch1775
boot-ketch1785
1775 T. Campbell Diary Visit Eng. 221 The number of churches I could not learn from our boot catch guide.
boot-catcher n. Obsolete
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > one who pulled guests' boots off
boot-catcher1745
boot-catch1775
boot-ketch1785
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 66 The Ostler and the Boot-catcher, ought to partake.
1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife iv. ii. 83 There is Master, and John Ostler, and Boot-catcher, all gone a'ter 'em.
boot-clamp n. (see quots.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > device for holding shoe or last steady
stirrupa1600
knee-strap1812
boot-clampa1877
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Boot-clamp, a device for holding a boot while being sewed.
boot-closer n. one who sews together the upper leathers of boots.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > sewing > one who
boot-closer1824
stitch-man1844
stabber1854
1824 J. Constable Let. 12 July (1964) II. 360 Mary is married to her cousin..a boot closer.
boot-crimp n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > for shaping
shaping board1442
turning-machine1849
boot-crimpa1877
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. Boot-crimp, a tool or a machine for giving the shape to the pieces of leather designed for boot uppers.
boot-eater n.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > corrupt
malpractitioner1800
boot-eater1880
1880 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Dec. 11/1 A historic juror..is said to have given final..proof of his resolution to acquit a State defendant..by declaring that he would eat his boots before he would find the man guilty. A ‘boot-eater’ now designates a particular species of juror. Rumour says there are at least nine boot-eaters in the Parnell jury.
boot-eating n. (see quot.).
boot-faced adj. [ < phrase to have a sea boot face, see quot. 1925] colloquial grim-faced, sad-faced; with an expressionless face.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective] > of the appearance or face
louring13..
sada1375
frowningc1386
fluishc1460
Lentena1500
glumming1526
Friday-faced1583
becloudeda1586
gash1589
dark1593
mumping1594
hanging1607
fiddle-facedc1785
murky1830
unsunned1838
thought-ladena1847
unsunny1859
unhappy-looking1863
unhappy-faced1876
boot-faced1958
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 253 To have a sea boot face, to look gloomy.
1942 M. Dickens One Pair of Feet viii. 180 Everyone wore a face like a boot.]
1958 A. Graham Foreign Affair ix. 111 Laughing nervously at the boot-faced British.
1961 Bookseller 12 Aug. 1080/3 Commenting on this remarkable achievement..the Times is nicely bootfaced.
1965 J. Porter Dover Two ix. 108 He came down to breakfast more boot-faced than ever and lost no time in burying himself in the morning paper.
boot-grain n. a cowhide leather used for heavy boots.
boot-gusset n. elastic sides inserted in boots.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > elastic sides of boots
spring1834
side spring1844
gusset1881
boot-gusset1882
1882 Daily News 4 Mar. A decline in the trade in boot gussets in the elastic web manufacture.
Boot Hill n. U.S. a graveyard or cemetery (originally jocular of a frontier cemetery, in allusion to its occupants' dying with their boots on); frequently attributive.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun]
littenc900
charnel1377
burying-place1382
fosse?a1425
churchyard1477
golgotha1604
God's acre1605
cemetery1613
burial-place1633
dormitory1634
burying-ground1711
burial-field1743
graveyard1767
burial-ground1803
burial-yard1842
boneyard1866
Boot Hill1901
necropole1921
memorial park1927
grave-site1953
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [adjective] > frontier
Boot Hill1901
1886 Outing Jan. 398/2 Within the rail fence of ‘Boot-heel Cemetery’, at Flagstaff, my stopping-place, there were fourteen graves.]
1901 Everybody's Mag. June 582/2 Occasionally his six-shooter brought order and a new grave or two in Boot Hill cemetery.
1930 E. Ferber Cimarron 160 The body..was interred in Boot Hill, with only the prowling jackals to mourn him.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 11/2 Boot hill, prison cemetery.
1948 Southern Sierran (Los Angeles) May 2/3 The rest of us took Wednesday for an auto trip..through Tombstone of the one and only Boothill Cemetery.
1962 Times 12 Apr. 7/3 There's an old saying that every boothill is ‘full of fellers that pulled their triggers before aimin'’.
1971 J. H. Gray Red Lights on Prairies i. 2 A poor town that could not boast of its local bad men or boothill cemetery.
boot-hole n. the place where boots are cleaned in a large establishment.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > place for cleaning shoes in establishment
boot-hole1902
1902 Little Folks ii. 162/2 It was Grandmother who happened to discover him sitting in the boot-hole under the stairs.
1906 Strand Mag. June 683/1 If your man gets returned they will put him into the boot-hole, where he will have to clean the other members' boots!
boot-hook n. a hook for pulling on boots.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > in specific way > with specific clothing > footwear > instrument to facilitate insertion of foot
shoeing-hornc1440
chaucepe1499
shoehorn1589
boot-hook1808
shoe-lifter1846
shoe-lift1862
1808 ‘A Connoisseur’ Fashionable Biogr. 83 Whether the Romans used boot-hooks, and of what kind and shape, I have not been able to ascertain.
1855 M. M. Thompson Doesticks xxxiii. 297 I could forgive thy Shanghae coats,..thy pantaloons so tight thou hadst to pull them on with boot-hooks.
boot-hose n. = boot-stocking n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > types of > overstocking
boot-hose1588
boot-stockinga1807
overstocking1867
spattee1926
1588 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 139 One paire of tawny stockes wth toppes of boothose of the same.
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iv. sig. H2v The maid That wash't my boot-hose.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. vii. 105 The women spun mittens for the lady, and knitted boot-hose for the laird.
boot-housing n. (see quot. and housing n.2).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle
saddle-boweOE
arsonc1300
saddle skirt1361
saddle-tree1364
skirtc1400
saddle panel1465
stock-tree1470
stock1497
pommela1500
tree1535
pillion cloth1540
port1548
saddle stock1548
pilch1552
bolster1591
cantle1591
shank-pilliona1599
pillowc1600
pad1604
crutch1607
sivet1607
saddle crutcha1614
saddle eaves1663
saddle tore1681
burr1688
head1688
narve1688
saddle seat1688
sidebar1688
torea1694
quarter1735
bands of a saddle1753
witherband1764
withers1764
peak1775
pillion-stick1784
boot-housing1792
saddle flap1798
saddle lap1803
fork1833
flap1849
horn1849
skirting1852
hunting-horn1854
head-plate1855
saddle horn1856
cantle bar1859
leaping-horn1859
straining1871
stirrup-bar1875
straining-leather1875
spring tree1877
leaping-head1881
officer-tree1894
monkey1911
monkey-strap1915
thigh roll1963
straining-web-
1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 432 Houzing, is either boot-houzing or shoe-houzing; the former is a piece of stuff made fast to the hinder part of the saddle.
boot-jack n. (a) a contrivance for pulling off boots; (b) a part of a railway line in which the boot of an unwary person is liable to become fixed between the rails; (c) Theatre slang, an actor of utility parts.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > [noun] > removing specific garments > footwear > device for removing boots
Jack1674
boot-ketch1785
boot-jacka1841
a1841 T. Hook Ramsbottom Pap. in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1877) I. 117/1 Tall men are doubled up like boot-jacks.
1890 T. M. Cooley et al. Railways Amer. 222 At all places where two rails cross or approach each other..dangerous boot-jacks are formed by the rail-heads.
1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Boot-jack, a general utility actor in a theater.
1898 Engin. Mag. 16 161/2 The ‘Bootjack’ Signals of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry.
† boot-ketch n. Obsolete = boot-catcher n.; also = boot-jack n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > [noun] > removing specific garments > footwear > device for removing boots
Jack1674
boot-ketch1785
boot-jacka1841
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > one who pulled guests' boots off
boot-catcher1745
boot-catch1775
boot-ketch1785
1785 H. Mackenzie Lounger No. 54. ⁋8 Sent the boot-ketch to Hart's for a pair of Spanish boots.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. i. 14 I wish..I had recommended him to attend the circle this evening with a boot-ketch under his arm. View more context for this quotation
boot-last n. = boot-tree n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > last
tree1541
boot-last1611
shoe-last1647
boot-tree1766
shoe-tree1827
hobbing foot1866
shoe-stretcher1875
hobbing boot1907
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Embouchoir, a Boot last, or Boot tree.
boot-laster n. ? one who makes boot-lasts.
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1857 Rep. Trans. Pennsylvania State Agric. Soc. 4 256 William Pilkington, Thornbury, boot laster.
boot-lick v. and n. (a) v. to toady; (b) n. a toady (U.S. slang).
boot machine operator n.
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1896 Leicester Chron. & Leics. Mercury 12 Sept. [A] boot-machine operator..was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Tower-street on the 5th inst.
boot machinist n. any person engaged in any machine operation in the manufacture of boots.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > other > one who
runner1853
corder1885
boot machinist1891
1891 Daily News 30 Dec. 3/2 Boot machinist.
bootman n. a dealer in boots and shoes.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in shoes or shoemaker's goods
shoeman1841
shoe mercer?1881
shoe-finder1909
bootman1927
1927 Daily Express 27 May 6/1 [Obtainable] from all Bootmen. Fixing Extra.
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boot powder n. a powder, as of soapstone, used for dusting the inside of a boot or shoe.
boot-rack n. a rack or stand for holding boots.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > other stands
boot-rack1837
umbrella-stand1837
watch-stand1858
pot stand1868
wig-stand1883
tie rack1916
patio stand1969
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlix. 538 A boot-rack and boot-jack.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 277/2 Boot Racks..18 in—1/7½.
boot-shank n. the piece of leather placed between the outer and the inner sole in the waist of a boot.
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1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (ii. 1) 336 Though the ground in comparison be not better then a bootshanke, as we vse to say.
† boot-sleeve n. Obsolete a wide kind of coat-sleeve.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > other
ventc1430
buttonhole1709
boot-sleeve1733
brandenburgs1753
scye1830
flash1837
sack-back1854
1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) i. vi. 9 These Boot-Sleeves were certainly intended to be..Receivers of stolen Goods.
boot-stocking n. an over-stocking which covers the leg like a jack-boot.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > types of > overstocking
boot-hose1588
boot-stockinga1807
overstocking1867
spattee1926
a1807 W. L. Bowles Note to Banwell Hill In a pair of worsted boot-stockings, which my father observed would keep my under~stockings from the dirt.
1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 197 You will not observe his boot-stockings coming high above the knees.
boot-stretcher n.
boot-tree n. a shaped block inserted into a boot to stretch it or keep it in shape.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > last
tree1541
boot-last1611
shoe-last1647
boot-tree1766
shoe-tree1827
hobbing foot1866
shoe-stretcher1875
hobbing boot1907
1766 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. (new ed.) I Boot-Tree, or Boot-Last, is a wooden cylinder slit into two parts, between which, when it is put into the boot, they drive..a wedge.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 109 Pretty boots trimly stretched on boot-trees.

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boots on the ground: troops who are deployed on active service in a military operation; also in extended use. Cf. on the ground at ground n. 8b; perhaps cf. also sense 1d.
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1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 11 Apr. 7/2 Many American strategists now argue that even light, token US land forces—‘getting US combat boots on the ground’, as General [Volney F.] Warner puts it—would signal to an enemy that the US is physically guarding the area.]
1990 Summary World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East, Afr. & Latin Amer. (B.B.C.) 3rd Ser. 22 Jan. ME/0668/B/3 Military analysts said if one took into account the effect of the shortened national service period, the SADF may be left with about 30% to 40% less ‘boots on the grounds [sic]’ than before.
1997 Signal May 36/2 This concentration of combat power at the decisive time and place, with less need to physically mass forces than in the past, will not obviate the ultimate ‘boots on the ground’ requirement in many operations.
2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 July c2/2 Investors today are looking to diversify their sources of information... When you look at..China, you realize that you need boots on the ground to understand what's happening.
2011 J. Tirman Deaths of Others vii. 230 The vaunted U.S. technological firepower was in effect used as a substitute for ‘boots on the ground’.
boot-cut adj. and n. (a) adj. (of jeans or other trousers) cut with a leg that is flared very slightly from the knee to the ankle, so as to be worn comfortably over boots; (b) n. (in plural) jeans or other trousers cut in this style.
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1970 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 7 May 14 a/3 (advt.) Lee rodeo jeans... Boot cut in bronze and green.
1970 San Antonio (Texas) Light 24 July 8/2 (advt.) Men's famous brand jeans... Many boot cuts included.
1993 New Mexico Daily Lobo 21 Sept. 5/2 Yoakam's been a hero of mine since he, his torn boot-cut jeans, his blocked hat and his long tuxedo shirt made their debut in the mid '80s.
1996 Times 9 Nov. (Shopping section) 3/1 What did they wear outside the studio? Moleskin hipsters, khaki combats, gaberdine boot-cuts; anything but denim.
2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody i. 5 The buff-looking blonde in the middle, in camel-colored boot-cut pants topped with a zippered fleece vest, raised her hand and gave us a semi-smile.

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boot sale n. British = car boot sale n. at car boot n. Compounds 2.
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1984 Times 17 Dec. 10/2 A muddy, unpleasant land of banger races, boot sales,..and fist fights in the car park of the local pub.
2007 R. Wilson Short Stories for Long Journeys 250 Betty and Margaret were looking forward to the boot sale, not for the work it involved but so they could get rid of a load of old junk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

bootn.4

Brit. /buːt/, U.S. /but/
Etymology: Shortened < bootstrap n.
Computing.
1. The operation or procedure of booting a computer or an operating system.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > starting up computer
booting1982
boot1984
1984 Phillips & Scellato Apple IIc User Guide iv. 40 Insert the Apple at Play disk into the disk drive. The computer is still turned on, so you can try a procedure called a ‘cold boot’ that makes the Apple //c think it has just been turned on.
2. A bootstrap routine. See boot v.4
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1975 Eckhouse & Morris Minicomputer Systems vi. 169 The boot overlay code will overlay the first two instructions of the loader.
1983 W. S. Davis Operating Syst. (ed. 2) xii. 234 The boot contains a small amount of program logic — just enough to read a sector or two from the system disk drive.
1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Aug. 23/1 Programs that use their own loaders may or may not boot depending on the environment that happens to be established by the boot code. Pascal disks appear to boot without any problems.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bootv.1

Brit. /buːt/, U.S. /but/
Forms: Middle English–1500s bote(n, Middle English–1500s boote, 1500s– boot; also northernMiddle English buten, buytt, Middle English–1500s bute.
Etymology: Middle English bōten < bōt, boot n.1, taking the place of beten (see beet v.), which was scarcely used in the south after the 14th cent. Compare boten v.
†1. transitive. To make better; to cure, relieve, heal; to remedy. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)]
helpc950
amendc1230
bootc1330
correctc1374
menda1375
recovera1398
dighta1400
restorea1400
redressa1402
recurec1425
remedyc1425
remeidc1480
emendc1485
richa1500
rightena1500
chastisea1513
rectifya1529
redeem1575
salve1575
remed1590
reclaim1593
renew1608
retrieve1625
recruit1673
raccommode1754
splice1803
doctor1829
remediate1837
right-side1847
sort1948
c1330 Amis & Amil. 2340 Jesu that is heuen king, Schal bote the of thi bale.
a1450 Syr Eglam. 187 He was botyd of mekylle care.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 78 The sauour of hym boteth alle syknessis.
†2. transitive. To make good (a deficiency), to make up (what is deficient); to add by way of equalizing the value of things exchanged; to give ‘into the boot’. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > compensate or make up for
restorea1325
to make good1389
boot1393
rewarda1398
supplya1398
to make up1472
upset1513
to fetch again1535
redeem1590
balance1594
pay1596
unpay1600
to make out1610
requitea1613
to pay home1625
encourage1628
compensate1646
compensate1656
reprise1662
to take up1662
to fetch up1665
to pay off1717
indemnify1750
to bring up arrears1788
equalize1866
reparate1956
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 382 Ther were chapmen y-chose þe chaffare to preise; Þat he þat hadde þe hod sholde nat habbe þe cloke. Þe betere þyng; by arbytours sholde bote þe werse.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 45 Botyn, or ȝeue more overe in barganynge, licitor, in precio superaddo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 461/1 What will you boote bytwene my horse and yours?
3. To do good; to be of use or value; to profit, avail, help. (Only used in 3rd person.)
a. impersonal (or with it): chiefly negative and interrogative. (Usually followed by the real subject, as an infinitive phrase, or substantive clause.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial [verb (intransitive)]
dowc950
frameOE
fremeOE
helpc1000
gainc1175
holdc1175
vail1303
yainc1325
it is speedfulc1340
profit1340
speedc1380
prowa1400
bootc1400
prevailc1450
avail1489
mister1490
skill1528
stead1594
advantagea1616
conduce1624
c1400 Roland 499 It botes not to abide.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 66 The pore soule cried..but it boted not.
1564 E. Grindal Remains (1843) (modernized text) 25 It needeth not or booteth not, as the old proverb goeth.
1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 445 What bootes it then to come from glorious Fore~fathers?
1656 A. Cowley Destinie in Pindaric Odes iv With Fate what boots it to contend?
1828 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) I. ii. 88 It boots not to look backwards.
1855 R. Browning Cleon in Men & Women II. 184 What boots To know she might spout oceans if she could?
b. with dative object (or with to.) archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)]
helpc1000
goodOE
steadc1175
to do (one) boot?c1225
advancec1330
profitc1330
availc1384
servea1398
vaila1400
vailc1400
prevail1442
advantage?1459
vantagec1460
bootc1540
benefit1549
conduce?1577
to serve (one) in some, no stead1601
bonify1603
answer1756
better1833
to stand to ——1841
to stand (a person or thing) in (good, etc.) stead1887
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3391 Me botis not barly your biddyng with stonde.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C4 Him booteth not resist, nor succour call.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (i. 8) 175 It shall not boote a man to say in the day of iudgement, Lord, Lord.
1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 65 It will not boot you to say so.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 43 Boots it to you now, that the whole world loves and deplores you?
c. with sense ‘it matters’.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [verb (transitive)]
bea1400
forcea1400
to stand (a person) in store?1463
makea1466
concerna1475
nigh1490
import1561
cerna1616
boot1752
mean1860
1752 E. Young Brothers iii. i What boots it which prevails?
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xix. 126 Little boots it to the subtle speculatist to stand single in his opinions.
d. with noun (singular or plural) as subject.
ΚΠ
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ii. sig. G Braulyng booted not.
1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 2 Little I feare my labour me will boote.
a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 143 What boots his Hand, his Heart, his Head?
1795 R. Southey Poems 32 What boot to thee the blessings fortune gave? What boots thy wealth?
1884 R. Browning Ferishtah's Fancies 18 Little boots Our sympathy with fiction!
†4. transitive. To benefit, increase, enrich. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)] > supply with some benefit
visita1400
boota1616
prevail1617
avail1785
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 71 And I will boot thee with what guift beside Thy modestie can begge. View more context for this quotation
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† bootv.2

Etymology: compare boot n.2, also Middle Low German bûten (Dutch buiten) to make booty, to seize.
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. ? To share as booty.
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the mind > possession > sharing > share [verb (intransitive)]
scot?c1225
deal1297
partc1300
to take partc1384
departc1440
skair1462
impart1471
participate1531
communicate1541
to part stakes (also shares)1553
boot1554
partake1561
intercommune1601
copart1637
to go sharers1644
to run shares1644
intervene1646
go1653
to go a share1655
to share and share alike (formerly also like)1656
to go shares1658
to go share and share alikea1661
to go snips (or snip)1671
to go snacks (or snack)1693
to club one's shares1814
to cut in1890
1554 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes iv. xxiii. 120 b His desire and his entencion Was to be boting [1494 has boty] with them of such pillage As goddes had in their possession.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

bootv.3

Brit. /buːt/, U.S. /but/
Forms: Middle English bote(n, -yn, ( bute), 1600s boote, 1500s– boot.
Etymology: < boot n.3
1.
a. transitive. To put boots on (another or oneself).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > footwear
shoec897
boot1468
sandal1713
streek1815
clog1827
slipper1856
beslipper1866
1468 Medulla Gram. in Cath. Angl. 49 (note) Ocreo, to botyn.
1483 Cath. Angl. 49 To Bute [Buyyt], ocreare.
1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. D4 Let me entreate you would goe boote your selues.
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 272 To Boot, ocreas induere.
?17.. Ballad ‘Young Redin’ x, in Allingham Ballad Bk. (1865) 285 They've booted him and spurred him.
b. intransitive (for reflexive). To put on one's boots.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (intransitive)] > in specific way > in specific clothing
to cover (one's head)c1340
boot1600
to be covered1611
to put on1611
robea1626
cloak1774
wrap1847
tuck1888
gown1896
flannel1919
to suit up1927
to dress down1941
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 130 Get on thy boots..boote, boote master Shallow. View more context for this quotation
1813 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 272 Many persons booting..for a journey to Paris.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1861) 95 Help me to boot and gird.
2. transitive. To torture with the boot n.3 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > with the boot
boot1580
strikea1715
1580–1 Randolph in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 324 He hath been sore booted.
1818 W. Scott Let. 7 Feb. (1933) V. 77 Tradition says..Grainger and his wife were booted.
3. Military slang. To beat, formerly with a long jack-boot, now with a leather surcingle or waist-belt: an irregular conventional punishment inflicted by soldiers on a comrade guilty of dishonesty or shirking duty.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with boot
boot1802
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (1816) 84/2 Scabbarding a soldier, as in the infantry of the line, or booting him, as in the cavalry.
4.
a. To kick (a person).
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > kick
smitec1330
frontc1400
punch1449
kick1598
calcitrate1623
bunch1647
pause1673
pote1673
purr1847
boot1877
turf1888
root1890
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) 59 To ‘boot a man’ is to kick him.
1883 D. C. Murray By Gate of Sea II. ix. 43 I have felt..an electric sensation in the right foot, indicative..of a desire to boot a noble swell or two who hover in her train.
1891 Daily News 11 Feb. 7/3 At him, lads! Boot and kick him! Kill him!
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xii. 195 I saw a big hulking beast of a Dutchman booting the ship's boy.
1913 ‘I. Hay’ Happy-go-lucky i You will be booted for that afterwards, my lad.
b. To eject (a person); = to kick back 1 at kick v.1 Phrasal verbs. Also with out. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession > forcibly or ignominiously
eject1555
rumble1570
obtrude1595
to show (a person) the door1638
to kick downstairs1678
to kick out1697
drum1720
firk1823
to chuck out1869
bounce1877
boot1880
out-kick1883
turf1888
hoof1893
hound1922
1880 Harper's Mag. Dec. 160/2 He angrily bade the bore to leave..and never show his face there again; if he did, he would be booted out.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 13 Nov. 2/2 Who flocked together in the House of Lords..to ‘boot’ the Home Rule Bill.
1907 Daily Chron. 5 Nov. 10/4 That German scrub wants me to boot [him].
1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 7/2 Burgess literally booted him out of his office.
1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon I. 317 Were not the Turks booted out of here in 1878?
1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 45 Though he led the ladies with charming politeness into his office, his baser instincts were at the same time urging him to boot the whole lot of them down the steps.
5. To kick (the ball) with more than the usual vigour. Football colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > play football [verb (transitive)] > actions or manoeuvres
place-kick1845
punt1845
dribble1863
head1871
tackle1884
mark1887
foot1900
boot1914
rumble1954
late-tackle1957
dummy1958
crash-tackle1960
to pick up1961
nod1965
slot1970
welly1986
1914 Morning Post 2 Mar. 4/1 The ball was booted too hard and the defence got the touch down.
1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms 14 The right-back booted the ball far up the field.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bootv.4

Brit. /buːt/, U.S. /but/
Etymology: < boot n.4
Computing.
1.
a. transitive. To prepare (a computer) for operation by causing an operating system to be loaded into its memory from a disc or tape, esp. by a bootstrap routine; to cause (an operating system or a program) to be loaded in this way; to load the program on (a disc) into a computer's memory. Also to boot up.
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society > computing and information technology > software > load system [verb (transitive)]
bootstrap1962
to boot up1980
society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (transitive)] > make operational
enable1962
boot1980
1980 M. E. Sloan Introd. Minicomputers & Microcomputers vi. 158 We turn the power knob to on, and depress the control and boot switches. We call this procedure booting the system…The computer is now in the machine language mode, in which machine language programs can be entered and run.
1982 Flores & Terry Microcomputer Systems ii. 40 Upon turn-on, control immediately goes to the ROM monitor or to BASIC, which issues a prompt. The operator then types in a monitor (or BASIC) command to boot the disk operating system.
1984 C. Hitching & D. Stone Understanding Accounting! i. 1 The data processing manager is rushing around making sure..that they have all remembered to ‘boot’ their disks before settling down with their micros!
1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 137/3 Booting up gem is an interesting experience.
1985 Pract. Computing May 82/1 When you first boot Deskmate it comes up in monochrome.
1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Oct. 29/1 If you boot up your system without the keyboard being plugged in, you will see an error message.
b. absol. with up.
ΘΚΠ
society > computing and information technology > software > load system [verb (intransitive)]
boot1983
1983 Byte July 219/3 Once you get the two beeps, boot up with a scratch copy BASIC disk.
1986 What Micro? Apr. 30/1 Once you boot up and run the new Mac one difference is immediately apparent.
2. intransitive. To undergo booting; spec. (of an operating system) to be loaded into a computer's memory; (of a computer) to have an operating system loaded into it.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > use hardware [verb (intransitive)] > load system
boot1983
1983 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Aug. 23/1 Programs that use their own loaders may or may not boot depending on the environment that happens to be established by the boot code. Pascal disks appear to boot without any problems.
1984 Computerworld 16 July 93/4 He inserted one IBM Personal Computer program and found it would not boot.
1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 146/3 When PCP/M has booted it provides the facility to autorun a program.
1986 Micro Decision Oct. 34/3 One of its purposes is to hold MS-DOS so that it can be loaded quickly to workstations when they boot up.

Derivatives

ˈbooting n.4 (also with up) the action of booting a computer, etc.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > starting up computer
booting1982
boot1984
1982 380Z Disc System User Guide App. B. 2 Booting,..the process of loading system software from storage (usually cassette or disc) into computer memory. Firstly, a small part of the software..is loaded into memory, and is in turn used to pull in the rest of the system.
1984 J. Hilton Choosing & using your Home Computer iii. 80/1 This process of switching the computer on, then waiting for the DOS to take over, is called ‘booting-up’.
1985 Computing Equipm. Sept. 6/1 System booting can be done directly from the hard disk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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