'Boot hook' definitions:
Definition of 'Boot hook'
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]