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.]
4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
6. (Plumbing)
Defn: The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes
through a roof. 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.
BOOT
Boot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Booted; p. pr. & vb. n. Booting.]
1. To put boots on, esp. for riding. Coated and booted for it. B. Jonson.
2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]
BOOT
Boot, v. i.
Defn: To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.