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1. Footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
    
2. Protective casing for something that resembles a leg
    
3. An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
   - the boot, iron boot, iron heel
    
4. A form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed
    
5. [informal] The act of delivering a blow with the foot
   "he gave the ball a powerful boot";
   - kick, kicking

1. Kick; give a boot to
    
2. Cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
   "boot your computer";
   - reboot, bring up
    
3. (computing) start a computer, reloading all software ready for use
   - boot up, bootstrap

Derived forms: boots, booting, booted

See also: oust

Type of: blow, case, casing, footgear, footwear, instrument of torture, kick, resuscitate, revive, shell, torture, torturing

Encyclopedia: Boot, Leonard