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• Boot, a type of footwear that covers the foot and ankle, and often the shins of the leg
• hence the substantivation booting mean to kick something or someone, in order to evict ('get the boot' also means be sacked) or to punish (compare slippering)
• a legal compensation, hence the phrase to boot (see bote for details)
• Boot (village), a small village in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the Lake District of England.

A computing term: A pair of classic black leather Dr. Martens. ... Sacked is an Australian slang term for being fired from an occupation. ... Similar in usage to a shoe, a slipper is an indoors version along the same vein. ... In legal history, a bote, also spelled bot or bót, was a compensation, recompence, or amends. ... The following places have the name Eskdale: Eskdale, the valley in Cumbria, England Eskdale in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland Eskdale in North Yorkshire, England Eskdale in Victoria, Australia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ... The panorama across Eskdale from Ill Crag. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid...

• Bootstrapping, any process where a simple system activates a more complicated system, used in computing, linguistics, physics, biology, electronics, statistics, and finance
• Booting, the operations required to place a computer into its normal operating configuration after power is supplied to the hardware
• the /boot directory, a protected Unix directory used in the boot process
• boot, an American computer magazine now known as Maximum PC
• an alternative name for the ping-pong virus

A device applied to feet or wheels: Bootstrapping alludes to a German legend about Baron Münchhausen, who was able to lift himself out of a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair. ... It has been suggested that System partition and boot partition be merged into this article or section. ... The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the main directories and their contents in Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems. ... Maximum PC, formerly known as boot, is an American magazine published by FutureNet, focused on modern day PC hardware. ... The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the university of Turin in Italy. ...

• Boot (torture), various torture devices applied to the feet or legs
• Horse boot, veterinary devices for treatment of the feet or legs of horses
• Denver boot, a clamp used to immobilize a vehicle's wheels
• Deicing boot, a device installed on aircraft surfaces to help prevent icing problems.

Other: As an instrument of torture and interrogation in various places and eras, many different types of boot have been made to cause damage and pain to the feet. ... A wheel clamp is a device that is designed to stop vehicles from moving. ... It has been proposed below that Deicing boot be renamed and moved to De-icing boot. ...

• Bootleg recording, often abbreviated to "boot"
• Car boot, in British and Australian English, the compartment of a car, usually in the rear, in which luggage and other cargo is stored (in American English, the trunk)

The plural boots may refer to: A bootleg recording is a audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. ... The trunk of an automobile is the storage space located either at the front or the rear of the vehicle. ... The trunk of an automobile is the storage space located either at the front or the rear of the vehicle. ...

• Boots Group, the high-street pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom
• One of at least five different musical releases (albums and singles):
  • "Boots (Nancy Sinatra)"
  • "Boots (KMFDM)"
• Boots (cigarette), a brand of cigarette in Mexico
• Boots (bishop), the youngest bishop of the House of Lords, whose duty it is to read prayers.
• Boots (servant), a junior household servant whose task was the cleaning and polishing of boots and shoes (compare bootboy)
• Boots, the talking monkey on the children's television series, Dora the Explorer

Boots Group plc (LSE: BOOT), known as Boots, is the dominant pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. ... It has been suggested that These Boots Are Made for Walkin (Jessica Simpson single) be merged into this article or section. ... Boots is a remix single by KMFDM, featuring three versions of These Boots Are Made For Walkin. Track listing These Boots Are Made For Walkin These Boots Are Made For Walkin (Bombs Remix) These Boots Are Made For Walkin (Candy Remix) Back In the U.S.S.A. Categories: 2002... Dora the Explorer (left) and Boots are the series protagonists. ...

See also

• Das Boot (German, meaning "The Boat") - a novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, adapted into a 1981 film by Wolfgang Petersen

Not be confused with the homophone "booth", or the homonymous German and Dutch words "Boot" and "boot" (which mean and are pronounced as "boat").