Definitions
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- noun The making of
boots .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He regularly studies antique bootmaking books and manuals from the 19th century and early 20th century, and he seeks out aging bootmakers at bootmaking conventions, seeking to borrow and preserve their techniques.
The Yankee King of Cowboy Boots Rachel Emma Silverman 2012
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He soon left Vermont to study bootmaking at a trade school in rural Oklahoma.
The Yankee King of Cowboy Boots Rachel Emma Silverman 2012
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I am thinking of doing a post on bootmaking start to finish.
Baking day.... Gumbo Lily 2010
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We're a U. S.-based bootmaking business - sympathetic to the cause, but certainly not responsible for it.
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He and his wife, a secretary he had met there, moved to his family's ranch and farming and bootmaking businesses.
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Could the tags have something to do with bootmaking?
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Like glassblowing or bootmaking or silversmithing.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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But in a society for cooperative production, for bootmaking for example, all the members are equally competent in the making of boots, the use of tools, and knowledge of the quality of leather.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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On another occasion a gnarled and fervent Radical of the bootmaking persuasion hobbled to the door of his establishment, and waving clenched and uplifted fists, called down upon us and our retreating equipage all the curses at the command of a rather extensive vocabulary until we were out of earshot.
The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914
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"And the bootmaking connection suffer proportionately," laughed Mr. Clampe.
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