单词 | bootikin |
释义 | bootikinn. 1. A soft boot or mitten made of wool and oiled silk, worn as a cure for the gout. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical garments > [noun] > other garments bootikin1767 cholera belt1831 Nightingale jacket1869 Nightingale1874 Nightingale wrap1885 poultice jacket1896 G-suit1945 1767 H. Walpole in Notes & Queries i. I. 232/1 One day's gout, which I cured with the bootikins. 1775 H. Walpole Corr. 11 Apr. IV. 8 My biennial visitant the gout, has yielded to the bootikins. 1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) IV. 221 Booterkins made with oiled Silk, as they confine the perspirable matter, keep the part moist and supple. 2. A small kind of boot; a knitted legging or gaiter with feet, worn out of doors by infants. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > low, short, or small botewc1424 bootikin1844 bottekin1882 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > other straw boots1707 bootikin1885 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 233 That species of bootakin, known..by the expressive title of ‘high-lows’. 1885 Civ. Serv. Store Price List 160 Infantees, Bootakins, Gaiters, Wool Boots. 3. An instrument of torture; = boot n.3 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > boot boota1522 boot1580 Scotch boot1604 oiled boota1640 bootikin1727 scarpine1855 1727 P. Walker Life A. Peden 26 (Jam.) There will neither thumbikin nor bootikin come here. 1834 M. Napier Mem. Napier of Merchistoun iv. 159 It was proposed to put him in the bootikins, an infernal instrument of torture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1727 |
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