Word Meanings - BOOTMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.

Related words: (words related to BOOTMAKER)

• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• BOOTS
  A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
• TOP-BOOTS
  High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
• SLYBOOTS
  A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person. Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.