Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little boot.
- noun A soft boot or glove made of oiled skin, formerly worn by persons affected with gout.
- noun Same as
boot , n., 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little boot, legging, or gaiter.
- noun A covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for the gout.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A small
boot orgaiter . - noun obsolete The
boot (torture device). - noun A
covering for the foot or hand, worn as a cure for thegout .
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Examples
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Observe, too, that this is written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually upon it, which has no distinction of fingers: so I no longer see any miracle in Buckinger, who was famous for writing without hands or feet; as it was indifferent which one uses, provided one has
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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Take notice, I write so much better without fingers than with, that I advise you to try a bootikin.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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