'Boot' definitions:

Definition of 'boot'

(from WordNet)
noun
Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
noun
British term for the luggage compartment in a car
noun
The swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick]
noun
Protective casing for something that resembles a leg
noun
An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heel]
noun
A form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed
noun
The act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn: kick, boot, kicking]
verb
Kick; give a boot to
verb
Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]

Definition of 'Boot'

From: GCIDE
  • Boot \Boot\ (b[=oo]t), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends, cure, AS. b[=o]t; akin to Icel. b[=o]t, Sw. bot, Dan. bod, Goth. b[=o]ta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or better, from the root of E. better, adj. [root]255.]
  • 1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief. [1913 Webster]
  • He gaf the sike man his boote. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou art boot for many a bruise And healest many a wound. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • Next her Son, our soul's best boot. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • To boot, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered. [1913 Webster]
  • Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Boot'

From: GCIDE
  • Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
  • 1. To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it? [1913 Webster]
  • What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them? --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • What boots to us your victories? --Southey. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • And I will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Boot'

From: GCIDE
  • Boot \Boot\, n. [OE. bote, OF. bote, F. botte, LL. botta; of uncertain origin.]
  • 1. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof. [1913 Webster]
  • Boot catcher, the person at an inn whose business it was to pull off boots and clean them. [Obs.] --Swift.
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Boot'

From: GCIDE
  • Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
  • 1. To put boots on, esp. for riding. [1913 Webster]
  • Coated and booted for it. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.] [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Boot'

From: GCIDE
  • Boot \Boot\, v. i. To boot one's self; to put on one's boots. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Boot'

From: GCIDE
  • Boot \Boot\, n. Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'boot'

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Words containing 'Boot'