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- noun Alternative spelling of
boottree .
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Examples
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The large boot-tree and latch-key on the circle beneath the handle predict a fortunate and unexpected gain in the near future.
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One officer received three parcels -- the first containing his keys which he had left on his dressing-table at home, the second, some sort of collapsible boot-tree, and the third, about a three years 'supply of
The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
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Without him, they would have fallen apart, like the outer pieces of a wooden boot-tree.
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Scrap fled with a sharp yelp as a boot-tree caught him just above the tail.
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It was a piece of timber some eighteen inches in length, and looking like the section of a boot-tree, or the half of a wooden milk-yoke.
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Alfred, your boot-tree, till I take the length of his muzzle, to teach him to come and play the Joe Miller at his age, old clown! "
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