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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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... how far he dare wade out along that slippery floor. The water is within an inch of his boot-tops now. But the slope seems very even, and just beyond his reach a good fish is rising. Only one step more, and then, like the wicked man in the psalm, his feet begin to slide. Slowly, and standing bolt upright, with the rod held high above his head, as if it must ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke
... do not greatly err in the estimate which I place upon the Protestant clergymen of America, the Democratic party and the Catholics will discover, sooner or later, that the same spirit which caused the Protestant fathers to brave the perils of the BOOT and the STAKE: to stand, without flinching, before such miscreant judges as Jeffreys and Scroggs: to yield two thousand pulpits and look beggary and starvation in the face, rather than compromise with ...
— Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; • William Gannaway Brownlow
... up," said Frank. "A tenant of mine, Dot; one of the respectable few of that cattle, indeed, almost the only one that I've got; a sort of subagent, and a fifteenth cousin, to boot, I believe. I am going to put him to the best use I know for such respectable fellows, and that is, to get him to ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
... matter is correct, but the manner leaves much to be desired. Question number two is—Which thread would you use to affix (a) a shirt, (b) a boot, (c) ...
— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... boy for a race, for an apple-paring or quilting frolic—fight a cock, hunt an opossum, or snare a partridge with any one.—Then I'm a squire, and a county judge, and a brevet ossifer in the militia besides; and a devil of a fellow at an election to boot. Not have me? damme, that's an insult. Besides, sergeant Jasper, I've been to the wars since I've seen ye—got experience, laurels and lilies, and ...
— She Would Be a Soldier - The Plains of Chippewa • Mordecai Manuel Noah


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