'To boot' definitions:
Definition of 'to boot'
From: WordNet
adverb
In addition, by way of addition; furthermore; "he serves additionally as the CEO" [syn: additionally, to boot]
Definition of 'To 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]
Words containing 'To boot'
- Boot,
- Booted,
- Bootes,
- Booting,
- Boots,
- boot out,
- the boot,
- Boot catcher,
- Boot closer,
- Boot crimp,
- Boot hook,
- Boots and saddles,
- Congress boot,
- Elevator boot,
- Fore boot,
- Hessian boots,
- Jack boots,
- Ruffle of a boot,
- Sly boots,
- Wellington boot,
- boot camp,
- boot maker,
- boot sale,
- booted armillaria,
- chukka boot,
- combat boot,
- cowboy boot,
- desert boot,
- gum boot,
- half boot,
- hessian boot,
- hip boot,
- iron boot,
- jodhpur boot,
- riding boot,
- rubber boot,
- ski boot,
- thigh boot,
- top boot,
- Half-boot,
- Top-boots,
- boot-shaped,
- car boot sale