the swift release of a store of affective force; " they got a great bang out of it"; " what a rush!"; " he does it for kicks"

kick; give a boot to

the act of delivering a blow with the foot; " he gave the ball a powerful kick"; " the team's kicking was excellent"

footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg

protective casing for something that resembles a leg

British term for the luggage compartment in a car

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"

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

Profit; gain; advantage; use.

To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition.

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.

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

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

The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe where it passes through a roof.

To put boots on, esp. for riding.

To punish by kicking with a booted foot.

To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.

Booty; spoil.

To profit; to advantage; to avail; - generally followed by it; as, what boots it?

A leather covering for the foot and the lower part of the leg; that which is thrown in to persuade one to make a bargain, or to make an exchange equal; as, I will exchange my house for yours and give you one hundred dollars to boot.

To profit; to benefit; as, it boots me nothing; to put boots on; kick with the boot.

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg generally made of leather: an old instrument of torture for the legs: a box or receptacle in a coach: n. pl. the servant in a hotel that cleans the boots.

To put on boots.

To profit or advantage.

Advantage: profit.

A covering for the foot and leg; profit; advantage.- to boot.

To advantage; profit; avail.

To put boots on; kick.

A leather covering for the foot, or foot and leg.

A carriage receptacle, for carrying parcels, etc.

To profit; avail.

Something over and above given in barter.

Advantage; resource; help.

A solid covering for the leg, or part, generally of leather; a kind of rack for the leg, formerly used to torture criminals; a box or receptacle in the fore or hind part of a coach: an apron of leather to protect the riders in a chaise, gig, & c.; a leathern case in which to put a filled bottle, to guard against accident in corking.

Profit; gain; advantage; that which is given to make the exchange equal. To boot, in addition to; over and above.

To put boots on.

To profit; to advantage.

To profit; to do good; to enrich.

Profit; gain; advantage.

A covering for the foot and ankle, and sometimes part of the leg; a box for luggage in the fore part of a coach.

To put on boots; to make ready for riding.

I'll give you five dollars to boot." – Herbert Carter's Legacy by Horatio Alger

Still looking for your boot? – The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle

He was a poor man, would perhaps always be a poor man, dependent upon the meager salary of a country clergyman; and he was the son of a convict to boot. – Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

There is a little monument in the garden over the shattered limb, and a part of the boot that covered it was seen in the house. – The-Life-of-Phineas-T-Barnum by Benton, Joel

There is my button on the suller door I cut it out of an old boot leg. – Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

I hear 'em say, Mr. Whut's- your- name, that you come from away up yander whar rocks is so plenty on the farms that in a hoss trade it would be big boot if a feller was to throw in a hankerchuf full of dirt. – Old Ebenezer by Opie Read

This beach terminates in a smaller pattern of the celebrated Italian boot that looks equally ready to play at foot- ball with Sicily or to kick intruders out of the Mediterranean. – Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

She felt not the least desire to confront her, and a strange man to boot; besides, Mrs. Joy must not be kept waiting. – A Little Country Girl by Susan Coolidge

A surge of brown and pink and cream, and a dozen rainbow tints flashed past her; a long boot brushed her saddle on the off side. – Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy

She has no more heart than my boot, and she will come to a bad end. – The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne by William J. Locke

I'm living in yours- I mean I'm boot- boy now. – Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Evelyn Raymond

The boot was emphatically not on that leg. – The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

My left boot had burst and, by the feel of it, there wasn't too much left of my right sole. – The Lost Valley by J. M. Walsh

In her hand was her purse and a boot- lace. – The Freelands by John Galsworthy

" The boot comes up so high that it keeps the rain out, except from my face," said Mr. Gray. – Little Frankie on a Journey by Madeline Leslie

She again leaned forward, and tried to take off the boot; but the pain was too great, and she sank back, and put her hand up to her flushed face. – Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

A minute later Adrian found himself in the street, towards which he had been helped by the kick of a heavy boot. – Lysbeth A Tale Of The Dutch by H. Rider Haggard

Patsie, sitting on the boot- rack, pulling on her shoes, made a round mouth and whistled. – The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil

Now the boot was on the other leg, and Watts saw therein a chance for some fun. – The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford