Boot: Definition and part of speech

Boot

  1. n. Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  2. n. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
  3. n. That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged.
  4. n. A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.
  5. n. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
  6. n. A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
  7. n. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
  8. n. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
  9. n. The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.
  10. v. t. To put boots on, esp. for riding.
  11. 1n. 1 Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  12. 1n. 1 Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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