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Bootjack

noun
1.
Has V-shaped notch for pulling off boots.






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"Bootjack" Quotes from Famous Books



... gentleman, all of whose moveables were a bootjack and a hair-comb: but he had the finest false collars in the world; and it is about one of these collars that we are now to ...
— A Christmas Greeting • Hans Christian Andersen

... the gorgeous portier, and a bath ticket and an insult from the frowsy woman for a quarter; she strikes a bell and a serving-man conducts you down a long hall and shuts you into a commodious room which has a washstand, a mirror, a bootjack, and a sofa in it, and there you ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... any other of the masterly characters with which the book abounds. There is indeed uncommon art in the manner in which his dignity is preserved by his courage and magnanimity, in spite of all his pedantry and his ridicules, and his bear and bootjack, and all the raillery of M'Ivor. M'Ivor's unexpected "bear and bootjack" made us ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth

... written out in the hand of John Adams, beginning very prim and careful, then moving off into a hurried scrawl as spirit mastered the letter. There is a little hair-covered trunk in the corner, studded with brass nails, and boots and leggings and canes and a jackknife and a bootjack, and, on the window-sill, a friendly snuffbox. In the clothespress were buff trousers and an embroidered coat, and shoes with silver buckles, and several suits of every-day clothes, showing wear ...
— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard



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