boots

The youngest officer in a regimental mess, whose duty it is to skink, that is, to stir the fire, snuff the candles, and ring the bell.

See skink.--To ride in any one's old boots; to marry or keep his cast-off mistress.

Boots
·noun A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Top-boots
·noun ·pl High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
dry boots
A sly humorous fellow. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
sly boots
A cunning fellow, under the mask of simplicity. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
to fox boots
To foot boots, i. e. to repair boots by adding new soles, and surrounding the feet with new leather....

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
to goose boots
To repair them by putting on a new front half way up, and a new bottom. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
jack-boots
Large coverings for the feet and legs, outside all, worn by fishermen. ...

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