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ˈboot-top
1. The upper part of a boot; esp. of top-boots.
1768Wales in Phil. Trans. LX. 109, I saw one woman with a child in each boot top. 1825S. Adams Compl. Servant 384 Liquid for cleansing Boot Tops, etc. 1827Lytton Pelham, The autocrat of the great world of fashion..fed the pampered appetite of his boot-tops on champagne.
2. Naut.
a. In phrase ‘to give a ship boot-tops’: see quot.;
b. = boot-topping b.
1768Croker, etc. Dict. Arts s.v., It is usual to make her heel, or incline first to one side and then to the other..having scrubbed off the ooze, shells..with brushes and brooms, they cover it with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, etc., and this is called giving her boot-tops. 1842F. Cooper Jack O' Lant. I. 126 Every vessel that isn't coppered shows her boot-top.
c. = boot-topping c. Also attrib.
1788Earl Dundonald Direct. for using Coal Tar 24 Painting vessels boot-tops with white lead and oil, has been discontinued..in the Navy. 1937H. A. Calahan Ship's Husband xviii. 229 Between the topsides and the bottom, it is frequently customary to paint a boot-top. The boot-top..separates the topsides from the bottom. 1949P. Heaton Sailing 247 When painting..mark in the boot top with tacks. 1958Times 22 Sept. 14/1 The red boot-top line on the yacht's hull was more clearly visible forward than aft.
So as v., to subject (a vessel) to ‘boot-topping’.
1724C. Johnson Gen. Hist. of Pyrates (ed. 2) xi. 211 Here they watered, boot-topp'd their Ship, and made ready for the designed Cruise. 1768Cook Jrnl. 15 Nov. (1893) i. 19 Got all the Empty Casks on shore, and set the Coopers to Work to repair them; Heeld and Boot Topt the Starboard side. 1908Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 829/1 The system is in operation upon the Clyde with great success, boot-topping the fast pleasure-craft plying on the river. |