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  1. noun Protective footgear, as of leather or rubber, covering the foot and part or all of the leg.
  2. noun A protective covering, especially a sheath to enclose the base of a floor-mounted gear shift lever in a car or truck.
  3. noun Chiefly British An automobile trunk.
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  • The top of her boot was again rubbing up against her leg wound. —  Fatal Cure by Leonard Goldberg
  • “In the boot were the bodies of two men who had been murdered, shot in the head with a handgun, obviously a professional job of work I believe I saw something about that in the papers,” Stone replied. —  The Short Forever
  • Indeed, when the CMOS password function is enabled, the boot is arrested until the user supplies the correct password For a user who needs access to the machine (and who has never been granted such access), the solution is to remove, short out, or otherwise disable the CMOS battery on the main board (see Figure 16.1). —  Maximum Security -- Ch 16 -- Microsoft
  • The owner can then call a 1-800 number, pay the fine and the boot is then removed.
  • In it's simplest terms, "White bite" refers to the callus formed on the instep of your foot where an improperly fitted or laced leather boot was allowed to slide back and forth, causing the skin to blister and redden, even bleed in worst-case scenarios ( "White" refers to the White's Boot Company, while the term "bite" refers to the initial formation of the callus.) —  Kit Up
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

shoe ·  jacket ·  glove ·  trouser ·  belt ·  suit ·  slipper ·  leather ·  skirt ·  blanket ·  bag ·  helmet

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boot:   boots ·  booting ·  booted
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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Middle English bote, from Old French.
  2. Middle English boten, to be of help, from Old English bōtian, from bōt, help; see bhad- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English boote, bote, bot, from Anglo-Saxon bōt, advantage, amendment, reparation (especially in the phrase tō bōte (literally ‘for reparation,’ English to boot), frequent in the Anglo-Saxon laws), = Old Saxon bōta = OFries. bōte = Dutch boete = Low German bote = Old High German buoza, Middle High German buoze, German busse = Icelandic bōt = Swedish bot = Danish bod = Gothic (Moesogothic) bōta, boot, advantage, profit, repair, reparation, etc.; from Teutonic*batan (preterit *bōt), be good, be useful, profit, avail, whence ult. English bet, better, batten, battle, etc., and (as a deriv. of boot), beet, mend, repair: see these words.
  2. from Middle English bōten, profit, from bote, boot, profit. The earlier verb was Anglo-Saxon bētan, later Middle English beten, modern English beet: see beet.
  3. from Middle English boote, bote, from Old French bote, a boot, French botte = Provencal Spanish Portuguese bota (Middle Latin bota, botta) (cf. Gaelic bot, botuinn, prob. from English), a boot; origin uncertain. Prob. not connected, as supposed, with Old French boute, modern F. botte = Italian botte (Middle Latin butta, bota), a butt, cask, leathern vessel: see butt.
  4. from boot, n.
  5. apparently same as boot, used for booty; or merely short for booty.
 

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