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▪ I. † boot-haling, vbl. n. Obs.
[as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The carrying away of booty, plundering of an enemy; marauding, freebooting, brigandage.
1598Florio, Gualda, a bootehaling [1611 bootie-haling], a freebooting. 1603― Montaigne ii. xxxi. (1632) 401 Returning from forage or boot-haling. 1657Trapp Comm. Ps. lxxxvi. 1 What I can get by boot-haling from the Lords enemies. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. 92 The wars of the Ningrelians..are..meer Incursions and Boots Halings.
2. The proceeds of marauding; booty.
1622F. Markham Decades Warre i. v. §2 His Conscience must tie him, not Spoyle, or Boot-haling.
▪ II. † boot-haling, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Pillaging, marauding, freebooting.
1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. i. v. 12 These boot-haling fellowes. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 164 The stragling and boot-haling Companies of such as had lately plundered London. |