To profit; advantage; avail: now only used impersonally: as, it boots us little.
To present into the bargain; enrich; benefit.
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Profit; gain; advantage.
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Something which is thrown in by one of the parties to a bargain as an additional consideration, or to make the exchange equal.
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Help or deliverance; assistance; relief; remedy: as, boot for every bale.
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Resource; alternative.
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Obsolete preterit of bite.
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Booty; spoil; plunder.
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In 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.
To put boots on.
To torture with the boot.
To kick; drive by kicking: as, boot him out of the room.
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.
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A covering (usually of leather) for the foot and lower part of the leg, reaching as far up as the middle of the calf, and sometimes to the knee.
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Hence In modern usage, also, any shoe or outer foot-covering which reaches above the ankle, whether for men or women: more properly called half-boot or ankle-boot.
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An instrument of torture made of iron, or a combination of iron and wood, fastened on the leg, between which and the boot wedges were introduced and driven in by repeated blows of a mallet, with such violence as to crush both muscles and bones.
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A protective covering for a horse's foot.
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In the seventeenth century, a drinking-vessel: from the use of leathern jacks to drink from.
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In ornithology, a continuous or entire tarsal envelop, formed by fusion of the tarsal scutella. It occurs chiefly in birds of the thrush and warbler groups. See cut under booted.
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The fixed step on each side of a coach.
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An uncovered space on or by the steps on each side of a coach, allotted to the servants and attendants; later, a low outside compartment, either between the coachman's box and the body of the coach or at the rear.
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A receptacle for baggage in a coach, either under the seat of the coachman or under that of the guard, or, as in American stage-coaches, behind the body of the coach, covered by a flap of leather.
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A leather apron attached to the dashboard of an open carriage and designed to be used as a protection from rain or mud.