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I will give you that to boot, i.e. in addition. The Anglo-Saxon boot or bõt means “compensation.” (Gothic, bôta, profit.)

“As anyone shall be more powerful … . or higher in degree, shall he the more deeply make boot for sin, and pay for every misdeed.”—Laws of King Ethelred.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Book
Book of Books (The)
Book of Life (The)
Books
Book-keeper
Book-keeping
Bookworm
Boom
Boom-Passenger (A)
Boon Companion (A)
Boot
Boot-jack
Boots
Boots (an instrument of torture)
Boots
Boots
Boots at an Inn
Bootless Errand
Boötes (Bo-o-tees)
Booth
Boozy