boot

archaic

1. :  avail, profit

1. transitive verb

2. 1 :  to put boots on

3. 2a :  kickb :  to eject or discharge summarily —often used with out was booted out of office

4. 3 :  to make an error on (a grounder in baseball); broadly :  botch

5. 4 :  to ride (a horse) in a race booted home three winners

6. 5 [ ²bootstrap] a :  to load (a program) into a computer from a diskb :  to start or ready for use especially by booting a program boot a computer —often used with up

7. intransitive verb

8. 1 :  to become loaded into a computer's memory from a disk the program boots automatically

9. 2 :  to become ready for use especially by booting a program the computer boots quickly —often used with up

archaic

1. :  booty, plunder

1. :  a covering usually of leather or rubber for the foot and part of the leg

1. :  ¹kick 1

1. :  additional money or property received to make up the difference in an exchange of business or investment property that is of like kind but unequal in value