noun

• (footwear) A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
• (footwear) A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
• (uncountable) A blow with the foot; a kick.
• (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.

verb

• (transitive) To kick.
  "I booted the ball toward my teammate."
• (colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
  "The storm is coming fast! Boot it!"
• (informal) To eject; kick out.
  "We need to boot those troublemakers as soon as possible."
• (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
  "As an IRC member with operator status, Swallow was able to manage who was allowed to remain in chat sessions and who got booted off the channel."

noun

• (archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends.
  "Thou art boot for many a bruise / And healest many a wound."
• (uncountable) Profit, plunder.
• (countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
  "I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one."
• (obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
  "Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot."

verb

• (transitive or intransitive, impersonal) To be beneficial, to help.
  "It boots thee not to be compaſsionate, / After our ſentence, plaining comes too late."
• (intransitive, impersonal) To matter; to be relevant.
  "I will go and offer myſelf to this divorce—it boots not what becomes of me."
• (transitive, rare) To enrich.
  "And I will boot thee with what guift beſide / Thy modeſtie can begge."