[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
boot catcher boot closer boot crimp boot hook boots and saddles sly boots 
slyboots 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

boot \boot\, v. t. imp.  p. p. booted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   booting.
   1. to profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed
      by it; as, what boots it?
      1913 webster

            what booteth it to others that we wish them well,
            and do nothing for them?              --hooker.
      1913 webster

            what subdued
            to change like this a mind so far imbued
            with scorn of man, it little boots to know. --byron.
      1913 webster

            what boots to us your victories?      --southey.
      1913 webster

   2. to enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. obs.
      1913 webster

            and i will boot thee with what gift beside
            thy modesty can beg.                  --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
booted booting 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

boot \boot\ b=oot, n. oe. bot, bote, advantage, amends,
   cure, as. b=ot; akin to icel. b=ot, sw. bot, dan. bod,
   goth. b=ota, d. boete, g. busse; prop., a making good or
   better, from the root of e. better, adj. root255.
   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
see also:
to boot 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

boot \boot\, v. i.
   to boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

boot \boot\, n.
   booty; spoil. obs. or r. --shak.
   1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

boot \boot\, v. t. imp.  p. p. booted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   booting.
   1. to put boots on, esp. for riding.
      1913 webster

            coated and booted for it.             --b. jonson.
      1913 webster

   2. to punish by kicking with a booted foot. u. s.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster
see also:
booted booting 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

boot
     n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
     2: british term for the luggage compartment in a car
     3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
        great bang out of it"; "what a boot"; "he got a quick
        rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" syn:
        bang, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick
     4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg
     5: an instrument of torture that is used to crush the foot and
        leg syn: iron boot, iron heel
     6: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the
        ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent"
        syn: kick, kicking
     v 1: kick; give a boot to
     2: cause to load an operating system and start the initial
        processes; "boot your computer" syn: reboot, bring up
see also:
bang charge rush flush thrill kick 
iron boot iron heel kicking reboot bring up 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

235 moby thesaurus words for "boot":
   naval reservist, procrustean bed, royal marine, seabee,
   abecedarian, additionally, alphabetarian, also, apprentice,
   articled clerk, as well, avail, bang, bed of procrustes, beginner,
   besides, bloomer, blooper, blow, bluejacket, bobble, bonehead play,
   boner, bonnet, boo-boo, boob stunt, booting out, boots, bounce,
   break, breech, bump, bust, cadet, calcitration, can, cap, cashier,
   cashiering, catechumen, charge, chaussure, cloak, clodhoppers,
   coat, coif, colt, conge, conscript, debutant, defenestration,
   defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, deposal, depose, deprive,
   detrusion, disbar, discharge, disemploy, disemployment, dismiss,
   dismissal, displace, displacing, displume, draft, drafted man,
   draftee, drop a brick, drop kick, drop the ball, drum out,
   drumming out, duff, dumb trick, eject, ejection, ejectment,
   enlistee, enrollee, entrant, expel, expulsion, extrusion, fire,
   firing, fledgling, fluff, flush, fool mistake, footgear, footwear,
   foozle, forced separation, foul up, foul-up, freshman, frock,
   frogman, furlough, furloughing, give the ax, give the gate, gob,
   goof, gown, greenhorn, gunboats, hat, help, hood, horse marine,
   howler, ignoramus, in addition, inductee, initiate,
   into the bargain, iron heel, jacket, jettison, jollies, jolly,
   kick, kick upstairs, kicking, kicking downstairs, knee, lay off,
   layoff, let go, let out, levy, lift, louse up, louse-up,
   make redundant, mantle, marine, midshipman, midshipmite, moreover,
   muck up, muck-up, naval cadet, navy man, neophyte, novice,
   novitiate, obtrusion, ouster, ousting, pattens, pension off,
   pink slip, place kick, postulant, pratfall, probationer,
   probationist, profit, propel, pull a boner, punt, push, quiver,
   rack, raw recruit, read out of, recruit, rejection, release,
   removal, remove, replace, retire, retirement, rookie, rush,
   rush of emotion, sabots, sack, scarpines, screamer, screw,
   screw up, screw-up, selectee, sensation, separate forcibly, shirt,
   shiver, shoe, shoes, shove, shudder, sock, stocking, strip,
   superannuate, surge of emotion, surplus, surplusing, suspend,
   suspension, swabbie, tenderfoot, the ax, the boot, the bounce,
   the gate, the sack, thrill, throwing out, thumbscrew, ticket,
   tingle, tingling, titillation, to boot, too, trainee, tremor,
   tremor of excitement, turn off, turn out, tyro, unfrock,
   walking papers, wallop, wheel, wooden shoes

[9] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

boot v.,n. techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps' to load and
   initialize the operating system on a machine. this usage is no longer
   jargon having passed into techspeak but has given rise to some
   derivatives that are still jargon.

   the derivative `reboot' implies that the machine hasn't been down for
   long, or that the boot is a bounce sense 4 intended to clear some
   state of wedgitude. this is sometimes used of human thought processes,
   as in the following exchange: "you've lost me." "ok, reboot. here's the
   theory...."

   this term is also found in the variants `cold boot' from power-off
   condition and `warm boot' with the cpu and all devices already powered
   up, as after a hardware reset or software crash.

   another variant: `soft boot', reinitialization of only part of a
   system, under control of other software still running: "if you're
   running the mess-dos emulator, control-alt-insert will cause a
   soft-boot of the emulator, while leaving the rest of the system
   running."

   opposed to this there is `hard boot', which connotes hostility towards
   or frustration with the machine being booted: "i'll have to hard-boot
   this losing sun." "i recommend booting it hard." one often hard-boots by
   performing a power cycle.

   historical note: this term derives from `bootstrap loader', a short
   program that was read in from cards or paper tape, or toggled in from
   the front panel switches. this program was always very short great
   efforts were expended on making it short in order to minimize the labor
   and chance of error involved in toggling it in, but was just smart
   enough to read in a slightly more complex program usually from a card
   or paper tape reader, to which it handed control; this program in turn
   was smart enough to read the application or operating system from a
   magnetic tape drive or disk drive. thus, in successive steps, the
   computer `pulled itself up by its bootstraps' to a useful operating
   state. nowadays the bootstrap is usually found in rom or eprom, and
   reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the disk, called the
   `boot block'. when this program gains control, it is powerful enough to
   load the actual os and hand control over to it.


see also:
bounce wedgitude mess-dos power cycle 

[10] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

boot
     
         from "bootstrap" or "to pull oneself up
        by one's bootstraps" to load and initialise the operating
        system on a computer.
     
        see reboot, cold boot, warm boot, soft boot, hard
        boot, bootstrap, bootstrap loader.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-11-27
     
     
see also:
bootstrap operating system reboot cold boot warm boot soft boot 
hard boot bootstrap loader jargon file 

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