bootjacks

Emaline had tried without success to get him to use one of the three bootjacks on the back porch to take his boots off.

Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

Emaline had tried without success to get him to use one of the three bootjacks on the back porch to take his boots off.

Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

Emaline had tried without success to get him to use one of the three bootjacks on the back porch to take his boots off.

Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

They are born to be our greatest comforts and conveniences; our — our moral bootjacks, as it were; and to men in your way of life, believe me such a person would be invaluable.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

The gabble of geese is music to the goose; the hoot of the hoot-owl is lovlier to his mate than the nightingale's lay; the concert of Signor "Tomasso Cataleny" and Mademoiselle "Pussy" awakeneth the growling old bachelor from his dreams, and he throweth his boquets of bootjacks and superannuated foot gear.

Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

We installed bookshelves, bootjacks, a sideboard, hat racks, a dumb waiter, a stand for the gramophone and a roll-top desk for the Major.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 Various

No fathers wear boots in this era, and bootjacks are as extinct as the dodo.

A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

To his groping hands they felt not unlike double-headed bootjacks.

The Return of Tarzan 1913

To his groping hands they felt not unlike double-headed bootjacks.

Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

I had, during my college life, known sundry college tutors seriously injured while thus doing police duty; I have seen a professor driven out of a room, through the panel of a door, with books, boots, and bootjacks hurled at his head; and even the respected president of a college, a doctor of divinity, while patrolling buildings with the janitors, subjected to outrageous indignity.

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I 1905