Boot

10 definitions found

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

  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.
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     2. An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to
        extort confessions, particularly in Scotland.
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              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.
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     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.]
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     4. A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned
        stagecoach.
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     5. An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the
        driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.
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     6. (Plumbing) The metal casing and flange fitted about a pipe
        where it passes through a roof.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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?
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              What booteth it to others that we wish them well,
              and do nothing for them?              --Hooker.
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              What subdued
              To change like this a mind so far imbued
              With scorn of man, it little boots to know. --Byron.
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              What boots to us your victories?      --Southey.
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     2. To enrich; to benefit; to give in addition. [Obs.]
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              And I will boot thee with what gift beside
              Thy modesty can beg.                  --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boot \Boot\ (b[=oo]t), n. [OE. bot, bote, advantage, amends,
     cure, AS. b[=o]t; akin to Icel. b[=o]t, Sw. bot, Dan. bod,
     Goth. b[=o]ta, D. boete, G. busse; prop., a making good or
     better, from the root of E. better, adj. [root]255.]
     1. Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings
        relief.
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              He gaf the sike man his boote.        --Chaucer.
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              Thou art boot for many a bruise
              And healest many a wound.             --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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              Next her Son, our soul's best boot.   --Wordsworth.
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     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.
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              I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. Profit; gain; advantage; use. [Obs.]
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              Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot. --Shak.
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     {To boot}, in addition; over and above; besides; as a
        compensation for the difference of value between things
        bartered.
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              Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. --Shak.
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              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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boot \Boot\, v. i.
     To boot one's self; to put on one's boots.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boot \Boot\, n.
     Booty; spoil. [Obs. or R.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Boot \Boot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Booted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Booting}.]
     1. To put boots on, esp. for riding.
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              Coated and booted for it.             --B. Jonson.
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     2. To punish by kicking with a booted foot. [U. S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

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

  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.
  
  

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

  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)