| 单词 | boot-jack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasboot-jack boot-jack n. (a) a contrivance for pulling off boots; (b) a part of a railway line in which the boot of an unwary person is liable to become fixed between the rails; (c) Theatre slang, an actor of utility parts. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > [noun] > removing specific garments > footwear > device for removing boots Jack1674 boot-ketch1785 boot-jacka1841 a1841 T. Hook Ramsbottom Pap. in C. Gibbon Casquet of Lit. (1877) I. 117/1 Tall men are doubled up like boot-jacks. 1890 T. M. Cooley et al. Railways Amer. 222 At all places where two rails cross or approach each other..dangerous boot-jacks are formed by the rail-heads. 1893 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. I Boot-jack, a general utility actor in a theater. 1898 Engin. Mag. 16 161/2 The ‘Bootjack’ Signals of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry. < as lemmas |
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