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Boot

noun
1.
Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg.
2.
British term for the luggage compartment in a car.
3.
The swift release of a store of affective force.  Synonyms: bang, charge, flush, kick, rush, thrill.  "What a boot!" , "He got a quick rush from injecting heroin" , "He does it for kicks"
4.
Protective casing for something that resembles a leg.
5.
An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg.  Synonyms: iron boot, iron heel, the boot.
6.
A form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed.
7.
The act of delivering a blow with the foot.  Synonyms: kick, kicking.  "The team's kicking was excellent"
verb
(past & past part. booted; pres. part. booting)
1.
Kick; give a boot to.
2.
Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes.  Synonyms: bring up, reboot.



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"Boot" Quotes from Famous Books



... how the rope was allowed to run. For no careful hands held it to allow it to glide through fingers, which could at any moment clutch the line tightly and act as a check. The rope lay simply on the turf, and the man who watched over the descent, merely placed his boot over it, the hollow between sole and heel affording room for the rope to run, and a little extra ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn
... in, and sitting down where his boot almost touched the new brown silk, he very politely began to answer her rapid questions, putting her entirely at her ease by his pleasant, affable manner, and making her forget the littered appearance of the room as she listened to his praises of her sister, who, he said, seemed so very ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... have, to boot, (Follow, my love, come over the strand) I'll have thy horse; go thou on foot, Even thou the ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... he made a tiny slit at the back of the boot on the inside, just large enough to allow of the paper being inserted, and then with some shoemaker's implements sewed the edges together so neatly that one could hardly ...
— My Sword's My Fortune - A Story of Old France • Herbert Hayens
... low laugh, that had the slightest tincture of malice in it, and glanced at O'Connor, who began to tap his boot with his riding whip. ...
— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton


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