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- Boots - n. - A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
- Boot - v. t. - To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it?
- Laster - n. - A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.
- Blacking - n. - Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
- Wellingtons - n. pl. - A kind of long boots for men.
- Gamashes - n. pl. - High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.
- Hessian - n. - See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a.
- Peg - n. - A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
- Cracowes - n. pl. - Long-toed boots or shoes formerly worn in many parts of Europe; -- so called from Cracow, in Poland, where they were first worn in the fourteenth century.
- Boot - v. t. - To put boots on, esp. for riding.
- Stretcher - n. - An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
- Boots - n. - A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
- Black - a. - To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
- Booted - a. - Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.
- Unboot - v. t. - To take off the boots from.
- Spatter - v. t. - To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.