THE BOOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the boot mean? 

• THE BOOT (noun)
  The noun THE BOOT has 1 sense:

1. an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg

  Familiarity information: THE BOOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE BOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

boot; iron boot; iron heel; the boot

Hypernyms ("the boot" is a kind of...):

instrument of torture (an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict torture on the condemned person)

 Context examples 

The first had walked both ways, but the other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed after the other.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I vas coming up in the Bristol coach yesterday, and the guard he told me that he had vifteen thousand pound in hard gold in the boot that had been zent up to back our man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In time of peace also the rules of the ring had been of service in enforcing the principles of fair play, and in turning public opinion against that use of the knife or of the boot which was so common in foreign countries.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)