Boottree

Boot´tree`


n.1.An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven.
The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees.
- Thackeray.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Nasser bin Said bin Khalfan al-Harrasi said that Wadi Bani Harras is surrounded by high mountain ranges and those mountains are famous for trees of thyme, boottrees known asReptonia muscatenceseaand Carallumaflava,which tastes bitter and is used to alleviate diabetes.
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