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boot-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.
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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.
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