Word Finder - boots

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A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.

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A blow with the foot; a kick.

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A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.

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(usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.

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A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.

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A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup. A deicing boot.

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A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.

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A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

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(police) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.

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The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.

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The act or process of removing or firing someone (give someone the boot).

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Unattractive person, ugly woman (usually as "old boot")

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A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.

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A bobbled ball.

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The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.

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To kick.

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I booted the ball toward my teammate.

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To put boots on, especially for riding.

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To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).

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To forcibly eject.

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We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible

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To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.

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To vomit.

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Sorry, I didn’t mean to boot all over your couch.

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(criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.

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Remedy, amends.

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Profit, plunder.

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That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.

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Profit; gain; advantage; use.

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Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.

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A medicinal cure or remedy.

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To avail, benefit, profit.

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To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.

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The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.

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It took three boots, but I finally got the application installed.

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To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.

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When arriving at the office, first thing I do is booting my machine.

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• boot up
• bootstrap
• start

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A bootleg recording.

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A servant at a hotel etc. who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

He shucked his boots and waded into the water.

She pulled her boots off and waded into the cool water.

Are you really running in boots?

Careful not to let the heels of his boots make noise in the hallway, he headed for the living room.

She lifted her head slowly, her gaze starting at his square-toed boots and running up the indigo jeans that flattered his lean build.

Darian's boots crunched snow as he moved closer.

Among the other manufactures are food preparations, wooden ware, wagons and carriages, stoves and furnaces, boots and shoes, tobacco and cigars, flour, candy, gloves, bricks, tile and pottery, furniture, paper boxes and firearms. Utica is a shipping point for the products of a fertile agricultural region, from which are exported dairy products (especially cheese), nursery products, flowers (especially roses), small fruits and vegetables, honey and hops.

Boots and shoes are extensively manufactured.

If one of his steel-toed boots connected with her head, she'd be dead.

She heard the crunch of snow beneath boots.

Jenn brushed flakes from her jacket and sat, changing boots.

Jenn tied her boots quickly and swapped out jackets.

Jonny flung off his coat and boots then sat in a chair in the living area, brooding.

His rain coat flipped in the breeze, exposing rippling muscles in his thighs as the square toed boots sought and found solid footholds in the wet rock.

Her western ensemble was complete with boots and a black Stetson hat.

She dressed in a pink cotton T-shirt, jeans and western boots - because that was what she wanted to wear.

He was dressed western from the tip of his boots to the top of his hat.

Catching her hair up in a pony tail, she tugged on her boots and joined Alex in the kitchen.

Catching the toe of her hiking boots under a vine, she tripped and fell.

Her kidskin boots alone were worth more than everything Xander had ever stolen combined.

He hadn't been able to steal enough coppers to replace even her boots and almost sighed.

Her heavy boots trampled one of his feet, and he pried his from beneath hers.

He recognized this one and set the cat down to put on boots.

He flung himself down into the oversized chair and lifted his boots onto the ottoman.

He was dressed from head to toe in black leather with a spiked collar, heavy boots, and his dark hair down around his shoulders.

His muscles were still bulging from exertion of his visit to the gym, and her gaze stayed on his biceps as he pulled on his boots.

Other manufactures of Kendal are machine-made boots and shoes, cards for wool and cotton, agricultural and other machinery, paper, and, in the neighbourhood, gunpowder.

Iron and copper founding, brewing, tanning, and the manufacture of gunpowder, confectionery, heavy iron goods, gloves, boots and shoes and cotton goods are also carried on.

Liqueurs, chicory, chocolate, candles, hats, boots and shoes, and woollen and linen goods are also made, and tanning is practised.

They have a kind of short kilt, stiff, made of black wool, with a band from back to front between the legs; under this they wear short linen trousers, which come a little below the knee, and black woollen leggings with boots.

The chief manufactures are boots and shoes, tobacco and machinery; there is also some trade in cattle.

There are numerous tanneries, and the manufacture of boots and shoes and linen goods is carried on.

Leather.Tanning and leather-dressing are widely spread industries, and the same may be said of the manufacture of boots and shoes, though these trades employ more hands in the department of Seine than elsewhere; in the manufacture of gloves Isre (Grenoble) and Aveyron (Millau) hold the first place amongst French departments.

Nantwich has tanneries, a manufacture of boots and shoes, and clothing factories; and corn-milling and iron-founding are carried on.

There are manufactures of boots and shoes, straw and leather goods, carpets, &c. Westboro was the birthplace of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.

Columbus is near the Ohio coal and iron-fields, and has an extensive trade in coal, but its largest industrial interests are in manufactures, among which the more important are foundry and machine-shop products (1905 value, $6,259,579); boots and shoes (1905 value, $5,425,087, being more than one-sixtieth of the total product value of the boot and shoe industry in the United States, and being an increase from $359,000 in 1890); patent medicines and compounds (1905 value, $3,214,096); carriages and wagons (1905 value, $2,197,960); malt liquors (1905 value, $2,133,955); iron and steel; regalia and society emblems; steam-railway cars, construction and repairing; and oleo-margarine.

Weaving and brewing and the manufacture of machinery, chicory, cigars, malt, boots, furniture and soap are the chief industries.

Sonsonate is the centre of a rich agricultural district, and one of the busiest manufacturing towns in the republic. It produces cotton cloth, pottery, mats and baskets, boots and shoes, sugar, starch, cigars and spirits.

Boots and shoes rank sixth; their value increased from $8,489,728 in 1890 to $17,920,854 in 1900 and to $25,140,220 in 1905.

East Liverpool leads in the manufacture of pottery; Toledo in flour and grist mill products; Springfield in agricultural implements; Cincinnati and Columbus in boots and shoes; Cleveland in women's clothing.

The diadem could be worn round the kausia; the chlamys offered scope for gorgeous embroidery; and the boots might be crimson felt.

The manufactures include boots and shoes, glass and agricultural implements.

The principal industries are wool and cotton spinning, and the manufacture of porcelain, earthenware, boots, soap, oil, sparkling wines and beer.

Boots were worn out, greatcoats deficient, transport almost unattainable and, according to modern ideas, the army would have been considered incapable of action.

The characteristic, but by no means attractive, street dress of the Moslem women of the better class comprises a black horse-hair visor completely covering the face and projecting like an enormous beak, the nether extremities being encased in yellow boots reaching to the knee and fully displayed by the method of draping the garments in front.

Other manufactures of importance are butter, cheese and condensed milk, packed meats and other slaughter-house products, steam railway cars, foundry and machine-shop products, linseed oil, malt liquors, planing-mill products, sash, doors and blinds, boots and shoes, and agricultural implements.

The principal industries are brewing, iron-founding and the manufacture of cloth, boots, leather, cigarettes, matches, pottery, preserved meat and confectionery.

The manufacture of overshoes and fishing boots is an analogous process, only the canvas base is more thickly coated with a highly pigmented rubber of low quality.

The principal manufactures are cordage and twine, agricultural implements, engines, pianos, boots and shoes, cotton and woollen goods, carpets and rugs, rubber goods, flour and machinery.

Bangor has various manufactures, the most important of which (other than those dependent upon lumber) are boots and shoes (including moccasins); among others are trunks, valises, saws, stoves, ranges and furnaces, edge tools and cant dogs, saw-mill machinery, brick, clothing, cigars, flour and dairy products.