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Bootjack

noun
1.
Has V-shaped notch for pulling off boots.





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"Bootjack" Quotes from Famous Books



... speech that led him to say "Come in," for it would hardly have been possible to get into a cabin only five feet wide, with the man himself sitting by a large rusty stove right over against the door. He placed a bootjack in the doorway for me to sit down upon. There was no window in the cabin. Firkins of fish were piled up along the sides of the interior, and in the dim background I saw a rude framework covered with straw which served as ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various
... with this an' that! I threw my bootjack at the cat Because he rubbed against my leg— I guess I'm all on edge; I'm fidgety an' fussy too, An' Ma finds fault with all I do; It seems we need to see again ...
— The Path to Home • Edgar A. Guest
... get up and go down to see—Washington. Shut the door, you rascal, or I'll throw the bootjack at your ...
— Hidden Hand • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... composer of the Ninth Symphony, throwing a bootjack at his house-keeper—thus far the eleventh, I mean house-keeper and not bootjack—"No, tell the thundering idiot I'm drunk, or dead, or both." Then, with a sigh, he took up a quart bottle of Schnapps and poured the contents ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker


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