A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
A tyre.
A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
An unattractive person, ugly woman.
The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
Profit, plunder.
A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
A bootleg recording.
A bobbled ball.
A blow with the foot; a kick.
A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
A black person.
To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
To vomit.
To eject; kick out.
To kick.
To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
To put boots on, especially for riding.
To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To gain; to win.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.